APPLIED LINGUISTICS

AND LANGUAGE
TEACHING
 GROUP 1
Annette Castillo,
Leonor García,
Cristian Ruiz,
Carlos Obando
 Introduction
Applied Linguistics has
become increasingly
concerned with political
For a large part of its
and ideological issues,
history, Applied Applied Linguistics has
such as the ways in
Linguistics was more broadened in scope,
which societal
or less synonymous and now includes
imbalances are
with language many domains of
encoded in language,
education, especially inquiry other than
and how language
English Language language education feeds back into unjust
Teaching
societal structures
(Critical Applied
Linguistics, or CALx)
 'Applied linguistics is the
theoretical and empirical
investigation of real-world
problems in which language
is a central issue'.
Chris Brumfit

 Where should second language teaching and learning

be within social science?

The Are SLA and teaching and learning of

second or foreign language branches of

problem applied linguistics or independent areas

of study?

related to

"Applied Linguistics contributed a lot to

Language language teaching and learning."

Teaching applied linguistics is ‘an amalgam

of research interest.’
David Block in cook & wei (2009:2)

 So what problems does AL solve?

The Most of its success has to do with language

teaching.

problem three implications:

related to 1. The applied linguist is a Jack of all

trades.

Language 2. The applied linguist is ago-between,

not an enforcer, a servant, not a master

Teaching 3. Sheer description of any area of

language is not applied linguistics as such
but descriptive linguistics.
 The applied
linguistics of
language teaching
reassertion of the importance of the AL
of language teaching
 It does not count as applied
linguistics of language teaching

If the language
elements are handled
without any theory of AIf the research base is
language does not neither directly
If there is no language need to come from concerned with
element linguistics but might language teaching nor
be philosophy or were related to it in a
not traditions of demonstrable way
language study
whatsoever.
 Research of applied
linguistics

Second Language
Applied linguistics
Acquisition
 Previous Research of
applied linguistics

Interlanguage
Features and
Interlanguage
errors in English
Textbooks for Junior
High
School Students in
Surakarta

EFL and Job

Opportunities: Some
Alternatives for EFL
Teachers
 Conclusions
(a) Language Education is a domain of activity on its own right, not just an
applied form of linguistics, applied or otherwise

(b) There is an interface between Language Education and Applied Linguistics

(c) It is equally unhelpful to view the two as entirely independent and as a

hyponymous set
Thank you!