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JENIFFER RUIZ NAVARRO 051350482009

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APPPLIED LINGUISTICS

APPLIED LINGUISTICS: OVERVIEW AND HISTORY

1. When and how was the discipline of Applied linguistics born? The origin of Applied Linguistics is commonly attributed to the establishment of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan in 1948 in the publication Language Learning: A Quarterly Journal of Applied Linguistics. Applied Linguistic began to use the aristelian modes of persuasion (credibility, affective and rational appeals) for the analysis of discourse.

2. What is Applied Linguistics about? Which are the most commonly regarded subfields of applied linguistics? Applied linguistics is a broad interdisciplinary field of study concerned with solutions to problems or the improvement of situations involving language and its users and uses.

Subfields of Applied Linguistics: * Corpus linguistics: has emerged as important areas in applied linguistics. Corpus linguistic has been around a long time in the forma of concordance used by lexicologists, lexicographers and language syllabus designers. * LWC: (language for wider communications): language policy and planning, Multilingualism, bilingualism, language teacher preparation, language and identity, language variation and change and language teacher preparation. *Second Language acquisition: the greatest amount of applied linguistics research in North America is done in the area of second language acquisition. * Language Assessment: has been an important part of applied linguistics over the past 10 years.

3. When was the term applied linguistics believed to be first used? Applied linguistics has a long history, the term is a more recent invention, but it is older than commonly believed. The term applied linguistics which originally arose in relation to general linguistic can be traced back to 19 th century Europe. One of earliest discussions of applied linguistics took place among Indo-

JENIFFER RUIZ NAVARRO 051350482009

SEMESTER-V

APPPLIED LINGUISTICS

Europeanists Rasmus Rask, the father of comparative linguistic and applied linguistics.

4. Which was the first academic journal to have Applied Linguistics in its title? In which field would you classify this journal today? The first journal known to bear the term Applied Linguistics as part of its title: Language Learning: A quarterly journal of Applied linguistics created in 1948 by the research club in applied linguistics at the university of Michigan role in the initial development of applied linguistics as a field of inquiry.

5. Why was the II World War important in the emerging of the discipline? Because the world was II US government adapted Bloomfields applied linguistics to generate an intense on expanding and improving the teaching of foreign languages.

6. Which is the international association of applied linguistics that gathers most national associations? When was it born? How often does it meet? AILA (Association Internationale de la linguistique Appliquee) was created as an international association of various national organizations and liaison groups for applied linguists. AILA had affiliate organizations (national associations working groups and centers) in 18 European and North American Countries, including Austria.

7. Which is the field/ discipline that traditionally was first associated with applied linguistics? Applied linguistic carved out its disciplinary niche outside of linguistics proper, it began to look to other fields, especially psychology and anthropology, for additional theoretical and methodological.

8. In which decade was the field of applied linguistics broaden to realworld language-based disciplines?

JENIFFER RUIZ NAVARRO 051350482009

SEMESTER-V

APPPLIED LINGUISTICS

McNamara and British applied linguistic of English focused on the teaching of English to international students and to students in various areas of the world the Australian tradition of applied linguistics, which began to arise in the 1960s, focused more on language education of its immigrant population and on foreign language education. The linguistic was more broadly defined that in the United State, Michael Holliday continued to play an important role in applied linguistics. The field applied linguistic continued to grow, the field expanded not only in its scope but also geographically. Toward the end of the 1970s and throughout the 1980s, new applied linguistics associations began to form in various areas of the World , include countries outside of continental Europe and North America

9. Which are the four major consequences of the fact that the field of applied linguistics shifted to real-world problems rather than theoretical explorations? As early as the 1970s, applied linguistics became a problem-driven field rather than theoretical linguistics and included solution of language related problems in the real world. The four major consequence of the fact the field applied linguistic are linguistics, error analysis, lexicography and lexicology.

10. What is the central issue in Applied Linguistics? Has it changed in the same way as its scope? Diverse interests and issues make up the research agenda of contemporary language-in-use research, and it falls outside thee scope of this article to discuss or describe them all. Three quite distinct directions in applied linguistic research serve to illustrate a sample of the theoretical, analytical, and ideological issues that have gained considerable attention in the past decade critical applied linguistics, corpus analysis, and languages of wider communication.

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