Definition of applied linguistics

Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010

Richards et al. 1985Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010


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Corder 1974Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010


Crystal 1985Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010


Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010Strevens (1992)


Aim of Applied Linguistic Studies:Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010 The study of second language and foreign language learning and teaching. Investigate problems related to language learning and teaching.To find some practical steps to solve those problems.


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Mrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010The importance of AL lies in the significant role it has in solving language-related problems.Language is crucial to human lives. Without language, most important activities will be inconceivable. Throughout the history and across the world, people have been using language to communicate. In our world there are many rapid changes. These changes affect how people use language.Hence, people need to investigate and understand the facts of language use, to organize and formalize what they know and to subject their knowledge to rational consideration and critical analysis. Only by doing so, people will be able to set out the options for action and the reasoning behind them.


Major Branches of AL:computer-mediated communication (CMC)language pedagogysecond language acquisitionlexicographylanguage planning and policies pragmaticstranslationconversation analysiscontrastive linguisticslanguage assessmentliteracies discourse analysis bilingualism and multilingualismMrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010


ReferencesMrs. Hind Albeladi - March 2010

Cook, G. (2003). Applied linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Noor, H. & Al-Qadi, N. (2003). A course in applied linguistics for EFL/ ESL Arab students. Almadinah Almunawwarah: Dar Al-Iman.

R. B. Kaplan (Ed.) (2002), The oxford handbook of applied linguistics New York: Oxford University Press.


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