Topic in Applied Linguistic

                                                                         Ernawati (2201410102)

Applied Linguistics is a subject of the study languages for practical uses. There are some definitions and scopes of applied linguistics as bellow:

1.      Definitions:

a.   Applied linguistics is grounded in real world, language driven problem and issues (primary by linkages to practical issues involving language use, language evaluation, language contact and multilingualism, language policies, and language learning and teaching. (Kaplan :2002)

b.   Applied linguistics is the academic field which connects knowledge about language to decision- making in the real world. (Simpson, James :2011)

c. Applied linguistics is the relation between language and culture, language and situation, the role of language in the community and in the individual, including bilingualism, the relation between language and the brain, the languages of the Deaf, help in learning foreign languages, training translators and interpreters, diagnosing speech pathology, legal adjudication (forensic linguistics), computer software to produce and understand texts and to translate systems of speech production and reception. (Gramley, Stephen : 2008)

d. Applied linguistics is defined as a discipline that uses a variety of methods to address language-based problems, one of which is that of language teaching and learning. (Nguyen Ho Hoang Thuy : 2009)

e. Applied linguistics is “the study of second and foreign language learning and teaching” and “the study of language and linguistics in relation to practical problems, such as lexicography, translation, speech pathology, etc.” (VNU : 2007)

f. Applied linguistics is the “relationship between knowledge, theory and practice in the field of language”. (McCarthy : 2001)

g. Applied Linguistics [is now] a cover term for a sizeable group of semi-autonomous disciplines, each dividing its parentage and allegiances between the formal study of language and other relevant fields, and each working to develop its own methodologies and principles. (Spolsky 2005: 36)

h. .  Applied Linguistic is the application of LINGUISTICS to the study and improvement of LANGUAGE TEACHING, LANGUAGE LEARNING, LANGUAGE PLANNING, communication between groups, speech therapy and the management of language handicap, systems of communications, translating and interpreting, and lexicography.  (Grabe, W. : 2002).

     According to the definitions above, I can conclude that Applied linguistics is the academic field that connects language to another fields. It means that Applied linguistics is the relationship among the fields of the linguistics: language teaching, language learning, and language planning. 


2.      The scopes of applied linguistics:
a.      Language and Teaching
This scope covers methods of language teaching. In doing teaching learning activity, linguistic is applied on those methods.
b.      Language and Society
The branch in this scope is called sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistic studies about the relationship between the society and language, and explore/solve the problem related to society that affects the language, varieties of language in society, terms of taboos and euphimism, etc.
c.       Language Education/Learning
This scope tries to explain about the first language education, additional language education such as second language education and foreign language education. It also help us to know about clinical linguistic and language testing. Clinical linguistic is the study about language disability.
d.      Language, Work and Law
The scope of Language, Work and Law explain about communication in the workplace, language planning, and forensic linguistic.
e.       Language, Information and Effect
It studies the literary stylistics, critical discourse analysis, translation and interpretation, information design, and lexicography.

References:

1.      Kaplan, Robert B. 2002. The oxford handbook of applied linguistics. oxford university press, New    York.

2.    Simpson, James. 2011.  The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics, 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN

3.   Gramley, Stephan 2008. Bielefeld Introduction to Applied Linguistics A Course Book,  (eds.) Magdeburg, Aisthesis Verlag, page 7.

4.      VNU Journal of Science, Foreign Languages 25. 2009. Teaching efl writing in Vietnam: Problems and solutions - a discussion from the outlook of applied linguistics.Vietnam. page. 61-66

5.  chÝ Khoa häc. 2007. Critical applied linguistics: concerns and domains. Assoc.Prof.Dr, Scientific Research Management Office, College of Foreign Languages - VNU.

6.      McCarthy M. 2001. Issues in applied Linguistics. Cambridge, Cambridge University Pres.

7.      Spolsky, B. 2005. ‘Is language policy applied linguistics?’, in P. Bruthiaux, D. Atkinson, W. G. Egginton, W. Grabe and V. Ramanathan (eds), Directions in Applied Linguistics, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

8.      Grabe, W. 2002. Applied Linguistics: An Emerging Discipline for the Twenty-first Century. In B. Kaplan (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics (pp. 3- 12): Oxford University Pres.

9. Mai Mustafa Fouad Ra’fat Ali.(n.d).Applied Linguistic. Retrieved from on  16 March 2013 at 4 p.m. http://www.scribd.com/doc/58883443/Applied-Linguistics-1-the-Scope-of-Applied-Linguistics