INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED LINGUISTICS
What is Applied Linguistics?
'Applied linguistics' 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 solve some problem in the real world. Those purposes are many and varied, as is seen in a definition given by Vi1kins (1999:7): who defines applied linguistics as
“concerned with increasing understanding of the role of language in human affairs and thereby with providing the knowledge necessary for those who are responsible for taking language-related decisions whether the need for these arises in the classroom, the workplace, the law court, or the laboratory”.
The range of these purposes of a language is varied into several topic areas:
1. language and its acquisition 2. language and assessment
3. language and the brain 4. language and cognition
5. language and culture 6. language and ideology
7. language and instruction 8. language and interaction
9.language and listening 10. language and media
11.language and policy 12.language and reading
13.language and research methodology 14.language and society
15.language and speaking 16.language and technology
17.language and translation/ interpretation 18. language and writing.
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