What is Applied Linguistic?

The Definition of Applied Linguistic

Applied linguistics is using a language as a communication tool to inform or get information with some consideration of environment culture, norm, and situation. In the socialization between people, altough it is interpersonal or intrapersonal, the use of language is really important. The characteristic of language influence the situation of people's relationship. The scope of applied lingustic is actually wide and we will know it more in these definition.

a)

‘understood as an open field, in which those inhabiting or passing through simply show a common commitment to the potential value of dialogue with people who are different’ (Rampton 1997: 14)

b)

Guy Cook defines applied linguistics as ‘the academic discipline concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world’ (Cook 2003: 20).

c)

 “‟AL is using what we know about, (a) language, (b) how it is learned, and (c) how it is used in order to achieve some purpose or to solve some problem in the  real world”. Schmitt and Celce-Murcia (2002, p.1)

d)

the focus of AL is on trying to resolve languagebased problems that people encounter in the real world, whether they be learners, teachers, supervisors, academics, lawyers, service providers… policy developers, dictionary makers, translators, or a whole range of business clients. (Grabe, 2002, p.9)

e)
Applied linguistics is any attempt to work with language in a critical and

reflective way, with some ultimate practical goal in mind. This includes

(amongst other things): deliberately trying to learn (or teach) a foreign

language or to develop your ability in your native language; overcoming a

language impairment; translating from one language to another; editing a piece of writing in a linguistically thoughtful way. It also includes doing

any research or developing any ideas or tools which aim to help people

do these sorts of things.

Phil Durrant
Visiting Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Bilkent University

f)
 ‘Applied linguistics’ (AL) is one of several academic disciplines focusing

on how language is acquired and used in the modern world. It is a

somewhat eclectic field that accommodates diverse theoretical

approaches, and its interdisciplinary scope includes linguistic, psych

ological and educational topics. 

Zoltán Dörnyei
Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Nottingham

The Scope of Applied Linguistic

"AL is utilization of knowledge about the nature of language achieved linguistic research for the improvement of the efficiency of some practical task in which language is a central practical component"

(Corder, 1974, p.24)

"AL is technology which make abstract ideas and research finding accessible and relevant to the real world. It mediates between theory and practice"

(Strevens, 1992, p.76)

Therefore, AL involves:

a. what we know about language

b. how it is learned

c. how it is used

The primary concern of applied linguistic has been second language acquisition theory, second language pedagogy and the interrelationship between of both areas.

References

Davies, Alan.2007.An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. United Kingdom: Edinburgh University Press.

Özkan Kırmızı (2011). Philosophical and Theoritical Bases of Applied Linguistics ad Second Language Acquisition. Dialogues in Philosophy and Social Sciences , 4(2), 14-30

http://www.slideshare.net/petitlutin/applied-linguistics (11/3/2013)

www.cambridge.org/elt (9/3/2013)

http://papers.waikato.ac.nz/subjects/APPL (9/3/2013)