SILABUS MATA KULIAH

PROGRAM PASCASARJANA UNP

A. General Information
Institution : Universitas Negeri Padang
Faculty : Languages and Arts
Department : English Language Education
Semester : July-December 2019
Subject : Applied Lingustics
Subject Code : ING 1.82.1003
Credit Hours : 2 (two) Credit Hours
Lecturer : 1. Prof. Dr. M. Zaim, M.Hum
2. Prof. Dr. Hermawati Syarif, M.Hum.

B. Course Description
This course contains information, concepts and /or theories on Applied Linguistics as a field of
modern linguistics. It provides the students with opportunities and forum of discussion on the
interrelationship between linguistic theories and their application in language teaching, mainly on
the teaching-learning processes of English as a second and /or a foreign language. It leads the
students to have impression and improvisation in order to make use of linguistics theories to
support the success of the teaching of English.

C. Objectives
At the end of the course, the students:
1. comprehend the linguistic theories and their applicative uses for language teaching and other
practical application,
2. are able to create and develop their valuable teaching-learning strategies as well, and
3. are able to write scientific papers on Applied Linguistics.

D. Evaluation
1. Attendance and academic participation 10%
2. Weekly Assignments 25%
3. Group/Classroom presentation 15%
4. Midterm paper/Test 20%
5. Final Project/Test 30%

E. References
1. Bruthiaux, Paul. et al. 2005. Directions in Applied Linguistics. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters,
Ltd.
2. Cook, Guy and Sarah North. 2010. Applied Linguistics in Action; A Reader. New York:
Routledge
3. Davies, Alan. 2007. An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory. Edinburg:
Edinburg University Press.
4. Ellis, Rod. 1985. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
5. Ellis, Rod. 1994. The study of Second Language Acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
6. Hall, Cristopher J., Patrick H. Smith, Rachel Wicaksono. 2011. Mapping Applied Linguistics.
London: Routledge

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 7. Wei, Li and Vivian Cook. 2009. Contemporary Applied Linguistics: Language for the Real
World. London: Continuum International Publishing Group
8. Davies, Alan and Catherine Elder (Eds). 2012. Handbooks of Applied Linguistics. Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing Group.

F. Basic Course Outline

Meeting Topics/Subtopics References Notes

1 - Introduction to the course All Sources
- The Nature of Applied Linguistics
2. - Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching in the 7: 1– 9 Group 1
Twenty First Century
- Applied Linguistics and Language Learning/ Teaching 3: 63-91
3 - Learning Strategies 5: 529-561 Group 2
- Developments in Language Learner Strategies 7: 10-36
4 - Language User Groups and Language Teaching 7: 54-74 Group 3
- Bilingual and Multilingual Education 6: 176-196
5 - Integrating Content-based and Task-based Approaches 7: 75-98 Group 4
for Teaching, Learning and Research
- Classroom Interaction and Second Language 5: 565-610
Acquisition
6. - We Do Need Methods 7: 117-136 Group 5
- Formal Instruction and Second Language Acquisition 5: 611-664
7. - Interlanguage and the ‘natural’ route of development 4: 42 – 74 Group 6
- Interlanguage and Fossilization: Towards an Analytic 7: 137-162
Model
8. MID TERM TEST
9. - Why is global language 2: 51-66
- English in the world/the world in English 2: 77-88
10. Language Policy:
- Language Policy and Planning 6: 98-126
- Is Language Policy Applied Linguistics? 1: 26-38
11. Isues on native and non-native English Educators: 1: 56-71
- Research Perspectives on Non-Native English
Educators
- Decline and Fall of the Native Speaker Teacher 7: 37-53
12 Issues on Language Skills 1: 165-185
- Listening and Speaking 1: 101-118
- Conversation Analysis 8: 262-284
13 Reading and Writing:
- English for Academic Purposes: Issues in 1: 101-116
undergraduate Writing and Reading
14. Issues on Language Components
Grammar:
- Time, Tense, and Perception in native voice of 2: 246-256
Bret Easteon Elli’s Lunar Park
15. Vocabulary:
- New roles for L2 Vocabulary 7: 99-116
- Idioms in language teaching 2: 212-230
- Bumping into creative idiomaticity 2: 231-244
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- Transforming research on morphology into 2: 160-170
teacher practice
16. FINAL EXAM