Applied linguistics (Task 3. unit 1).

EMC

1. An overview of applied linguistics

TASK 31
Task 2. Group the following titles of presentations given at AESLA (2000,
2007) and AILA 2008 into their corresponding panels/strands in the table 2.
Try to justify your answer. (You can write the number in the right column
of the table above.)
Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Education
Discourse Analysis
Lexicology and Lexicography
Sociolinguistics
Translation and Interpreting
Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Linguistic
Engineering
Language Policy
Pragmatics
1. Maximizing EFL learners communicative competence through cooperative
learning.
2. A reflection on the linguistic situation of the German-Brazilian communities.
3. Content and Language Integrated Learning in Teacher Education: Bilingual
approaches supporting multilingualism
4. The case of apologies in English and Spanish.
5. An insight into positive politeness in the construction of the book review.
6. The choice of dialects in a diasporic situation: the example of Armenian spoken
in France.
7. On building an automatic text classification model with minimal computational
costs.
8. English noun characterization realized by ing modifiers and its translation into
Spanish: A corpus-based study.
9. The role of discourse markers and personal pronouns in lecture discourse.
10. Collocation analysis of a sample corpus using some statistical measures: an
empirical approach.
11. A Frame Semantics approach for lexicon building.
1

This worksheet was created by Dr Begoa Nez Perucha and is used here with some
modifications.
2
AESLA is the acronym for The Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics whereas AILA
stands for Association Internationale de Linguistique Applique (i.e the International
Association of Applied Linguistics).

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12. Interlocking textual patterns in written and argumentative discourse: evidence

from USA paper editorials and articles of opinions.