Linguistics

1. Define applied linguistics

2. What is the role of applied linguistics?

3. Mention some areas of applied linguistics research.

4. Which are the 2 main methods used to carry out applied linguistics research? Explain

5. What is classroom research?

6. How can you obtain data to carry out classroom research?

7. Give a personal example of some problem to study from the classroom research perspective and explain briefly how you would study that problem.

Answers

1.

• The theoretical and empirical investigation of real-world problems in which language is a central issue.

• Using what we know about (a) language in order to achieve

(b) how it is learned and some purpose or solve

(c) how it is used some problem in the

real world.

• Trying to resolve language-based problems that people encounter in the real world, whether they be learners, teachers, supervisors, academics, lawyers, service providers, test takers, policy developers, dictionary makers, translators, or a whole range of business clients.

To sum up we can say that applied linguistics tries to resolve language-based problems that people encounter in the real world, whether they be learners, teachers, supervisors, academics, lawyers, service providers, test takers, policy developers, dictionary makers, translators, or a whole range of business clients.

2. The role of applied linguistics is to solve or al least ameliorating social problems involving language.

For example:

• How can we teach languages better?

• How can we evaluate a school bilingual program?

• How can we improve the training of teachers, translators and interpreters?

Applied Linguistics has always maintained a social role

to solve language problems

3. Some areas of Applied Linguistic research are:

• Language learning,

• Language teaching,

• Bilingualism,

• Multilingualism,

• Literacy,

• Language policy and planning,

• Translation and interpreting,

• Assessment and testing,

• Technology and language,

• etc.

4. The two methods used to carry out applied linguistics research are:

• quantitative method

• qualitative method

Quantitative research: involves data collection procedures that result primarily in numerical data which is then analyzed primarily by statistical methods.

For example:

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