Applied linguistics

History of the term

BY:Aseel Kazum Mahmood

3rd, March, 2014

Introduction

History of the term

Alternative terms

Conclusions of the History of the

term

Other surveys of the field

Conclusion

TODAY’S OVERVIEW

Introduction

Applied linguistics:

It does not lend itself to an easy definition

It has further problems

understood as an open field

History of the Term

• Back (1970:34 ff.) indicates that applications of linguistics were

though of before the term ‘’applied linguistics’

• Engels(1968:5) tells us that applied linguistics was

recognized as an independent subject

1931

1940

1946

The Russian WWII

1948

AILA

1963

IRALLLJ

1990

1993

A-diverse disciplines

B-various issues

AlternativeTerms

• To avoid the objection to the narrowing of the use of the term ‘AL’ to ‘FLT’:

• scientific study of foreign language teaching Wilkins (1972 b: 197).

• applied linguistics: its meaning and the useMackey (1966)

• language didactics and applied linguistics

Mackey (1973)

• language didactics and in some languages one finds variants of the Greek version

Girard (1971:14)

• spolsky (1978)’ educational linguistics’Spolsky (1978)

Conclusions of the History of

the term

(AAAL) in 2001 considered the history of applied

linguistics in four different countries

North AmericaBritonBAAL

Australia ALAA

does have identifiable roots in linguistics

Development of its orientation, scope, and linguistics

A significant amount of work directed to real-world issues

carried out prior to the formal appearance of AL

the advancement of education

post-experience knowledge

Linguistics had become mainstream

institutional language use.

draw on a greater range of disciplines

Real world problems

significant broadening of its scope

linguistics grouping list

psycho/

Neurolinguistic

processing/

translation

corpus linguistic

s

pragmatics

discourse

analysis/

rhetoricTranslatio

n/computati

onal linguistics – machine translation

Language teaching/H

umor studies/

sociolinguistics

Language

control/dialectolog

y

Other surveys on the field

• Not all applied linguistics is practical

• applied linguistics can fulfill a role wider than language

teaching• Could be applied only with limitation to either the input or

the output• the whole world is its oyster,

that the area of concern is everywhere,

Conclusion:

 In this paper, recent attempts to define applied linguistics has been considered, emphasizing the importance of various ostensive methods of definition and comparing the lack of clarity about applied linguistics to that of other applied disciplines. it ends with the unorthodox suggestion that all linguistic study is basically applied linguistics, with applied linguistics seeking out and working on language problems which linguistics responds to by idealizing and then analyzing in terms of current linguistic theory.