applied linguistics

1. Applied linguistics
History of the term
BY:
Aseel Kazum Mahmood
3rd, March, 2014

2. Introduction
History of
the term
Alternative
terms
Conclusions of
the History of the
term
Other
surveys of
the field
Conclusion

3. Introduction

4. Applied linguistics:
It does not lend itself to
an easy definition
It has further problems
understood as an open
field

5. History of
the
Term

6. • Back (1970:34 ff.) indicates that
applications of linguistics were
though of before the term
‘’applied linguistics’
• Engels(1968:5) tells us that
applied linguistics was
recognized as an independent
subject

7. 1931
1940
1946
The Russian WWII
1948
AILA
1963
IRAL
LLJ
1990
1993
A-diverse
disciplines
B-various
issues

9. • To avoid the objection to the narrowing
of the use of the term ‘AL’ to ‘FLT’:
• scientific study of foreign language teaching
Wilkins (1972 b:
197).
• applied linguistics: its meaning and the useMackey (1966)
• language didactics and applied linguistics
Mackey (1973)
• language didactics and in some languages
one finds variants of the Greek version
Girard (1971:14)
• spolsky (1978)’ educational linguistics’
Spolsky (1978)

10. Conclusions of
the History of
the term

11. (AAAL) in 2001 considered the
history of applied linguistics in
four different countries
North America
Briton
BAAL
Australia
ALAA
does have
identifiable roots
in linguistics
Development of
its orientation,
scope, and
linguistics
A significant amount
of work directed to
real-world issues
carried out prior
to the formal
appearance of AL
the advancement
of education
post-experience
knowledge
Linguistics had
become
mainstream
institutional
language use.
draw on a greater
range of
disciplines
Real world
problems
significant
broadening of its
scope

12. linguistics grouping list

13. Other surveys on the field
• Not all applied linguistics is practical
• applied linguistics can fulfill a role
wider than language teaching
• Could be applied only with limitation
to either the input or the output
• the whole world is its oyster, that the
area of concern is everywhere,

14. Conclusion:
In this paper, recent attempts to define applied
linguistics has been considered, emphasizing
the importance of various ostensive methods
of definition and comparing the lack of clarity
about applied linguistics to that of other
applied disciplines. it ends with the
unorthodox suggestion that all linguistic
study is basically applied linguistics, with
applied linguistics seeking out and working on
language problems which linguistics
responds to by idealizing and then analyzing
in terms of current linguistic theory.