the definition and scope of applied linguistics
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THE DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS. History of the field: Focus on language pedagogy. Traditional Latin and Greek through grammar translation. How to learn to speak a L2 fast. Audiolingualism - the „Army method” Pronunciation and conversation drills Focus on speech - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
THE DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS
History of the field:Focus on language pedagogy
Traditional Latin and Greek throughgrammar translation
How to learn to speak a L2 fast
Audiolingualism - the „Army method”
Pronunciation and conversation drills Focus on speech No explanation
and translation
How to best teach a language:Psychology and linguistics
Behaviourism and Bloomfieldian Linguistics
Tabula rasa Imitation, practice (Pavlov, Skinner) Discrete items (Bloomfield) Contrastive analysis (Lado)
Why can’t kids imitate
Cognitivism and Generative Grammar
Child language research (Berko) Cognitive development (Piaget) LAD (Chomsky) Deep structure – surface structure Competence – performance
What goes on in the human mind: Neurolingusitics and psycholinguistics
The neurological basis of language learning and use
How to define language knowledge
Council of Europe Language Project
Notions and functions for Threshold Levels
Rigorous linguistic study intellectual basis for the
development of ELT
Communicative Competence
„Én röfög kicsi német”
CALP and BICS (Dell Hymes)
Celce-Murcia (2008:46)
DISCOURSE COMPETENCE
INTERACTIONALCOMPETENCE:
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SOCIOCULTURALCOMPETENCE
LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE
FORMULAIC COMPETENCE
STRATÉGICCOMPETENCE:
(Learning)
Why don’t we say what we mean: Pragmatics
Gricean Maximsmannerqualityquantityrelevance
Speech Acts (Austin, Searle)
- Locution - Illocution- Perlocution
Contrastive rhetoric1. Ez egy nagyon finom vörösbor, állítólag Liszt
Ferencnek is ez volt a kedvence, remélem, önnek is megnyeri a tetszését.
2. This is a bottle of red wine, which is claimed to be a good one …
3. Amari oishii kono dewa nai keredomo, o-kuchi ni awanai kamoshiremasenga. (This red wine is not very good, I’m afraid you won’t like it.)
(Hidasi, 2004)
Cultural thought patterns in writing (R. Kaplan)
English Semitic Oriental Romance Russian
The narrow definition of AL:„the showpiece of linguistics”
Language teaching theory, language pedagogy
Testing ground for linguistics
The broad definition of AL: „the basket of many goodies”
Theoretical orientation:
sociolinguisticspsycholinguisticspragmaticsL1 and L2 acquisitiondiscourse analysis
o Practical orientation
L1 and L2 teachingtranslationdiscourse and conversation analysislanguage planningLSPneurolinguisticscomputational linguistics
What is applied?
The methods and findings of variousdisciplines
New definitions of linguistics (Strevens)
Formal linguistics A current best theory of language
exists based on linguistics Task of the scholar: contribute to the
development of theory Theory determines what research is
needed Practice should be restricted to the
validated results of that theory
Communicative linguistics
Problem driven Empirically grounded Multi-disciplinary Contextualised view of language Functionalist approach
What is linguistics about it?
AL investigates language in use
Linguistic descriptions of language and methods of linguistic enquiry
Aim is NOT to contribute to descriptions of language, but to solve practical problems