What is Applied Linguistics?

1. Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with

practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analysed or
solved by applying available theories, methods or results of Linguistics or by developing
new theoretical and methodological frameworks in linguistics to work on these
problems . 1
2. Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with
practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analysed or
solved by applying available theories.
3. Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with
methods or results of Linguistics by developing new theoretical and methodological
frameworks in linguistics to work on these problems.

Which are the ways of looking at Language by Macaulay?

1. Language is meaning • Language is sound • Language is form • Language is
communication • Language is identity • Language is history • Language is
symbol.
2. Language is communication • Language Is identity • Language Is history •
language is symbol.
3. All of them. 3

Dow did Ben Rampton (1997: 14) describe Applied Linguistics?

1. as ‘an open field of interest in language’1

2. As a closed field of interest
3. Or as open and closed field of interest

4. How did David Block (2009) call language?

1 an amalgam of research interests’. 1

2 A combination of Research
3 1& 2

What does the term problem mean in Language?

 A research question posed in Language user Linguist Data Analysis

 something that has gone wrong which can be solved.
 1&2 3