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Topics in Applied Linguistics’ Assignment
1. 1.Obtain the definition of applied linguistics from three different experts!
2. 2.Find the similarities and differences of the three definitions!
3. 3.Describe the scope of applied linguistics!
Answers :
1. 1.Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analyzed or solved by applying available theories, methods or results of Linguistics or by developing new theoretical and methodological frameworks in linguistics to work on these problems. (AILA International Association of Applied Linguistics in Defining Applied Linguistics)
Applied linguistics is the use of language-related research in a wide variety of fields, including language acquisition, language teaching, literacy, literary studies, gender studies, speech therapy, discourse analysis, censorship, workplace communication, media studies, translation studies, lexicography, and forensic linguistics. (Richard Nordquist from About.com)
Applied linguistics is an area of work that deals with language use in professional settings, translation, speech pathology, literacy, and language education; and it is not merely the application of linguistic knowledge to such settings but is a semiautonomous and interdisciplinary . . . domain of work that draws on but is not dependent on areas such as sociology, education, anthropology, cultural studies, and psychology.
(Alastair Pennycook, Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 2001)
(Alastair Pennycook, Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, 2001)
2. The similarities of the three definitions are the three of them state that an applied linguistics is interdisciplinary field that is about language and it is related to research.
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Definition from AILA International Association of Applied Linguistics
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Definition from Richard Nordquist
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Definition from Alastair Pennycook, Critical Applied Linguistics
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Concerned with practical problems of language and communication and how to identify, analyze, and develop new theoretical and methodological frameworks in these problem.
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Concerned with use of language, including language acquisition, language teaching, literacy, literary studies, gender studies, speech therapy, discourse analysis, censorship, workplace communication, media studies, translation studies, lexicography, and forensic linguistics.
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Concerned with language use in professional settings, translation, speech pathology, literacy, and language education.
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3. The scope of Applied Linguistics can not be limited to language teaching because linguistics was one of the fields of which the findings were applicable to language teaching. There were some other areas of science that contributed to language teaching as well. Furthermore, there were other areas of science, which had little or no connections to language teaching, to which linguistics contributed.
An Illustration of the Scope of Applied Linguistics
taken from Kaplan (1980)
