Teaching and Learning

TEACHING implies to give the instructions, directions in order to reach the goal that is to obtain the learning. Sometimes this action is applied in the persons of teachers but we can also learn with the experience of others persons.

LEARNING is the process of acquisition of knowledge we can obtain it by different ways. Learning can be related with motivation because motivation is related with the curiosity we have to absorb any kind of knowledge.

What science migth help to solve this problem?

It is commonly assumed that the educational level of the speaker is a variable that is directly related to his/her lexical repertorie. Is this totally true? Why do people with similar education level have quite different lexical repertorie?

The science wich studies the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context on the way language is used, how lects differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social class or socio-economic classes. As the usage of a language varies from place to place (dialect), language usage varies among social classes is named SOCIOLINGUISTICS.

Sociolinguistics is the science that can help to solve this problem if we approach the problem from a social point of view because lexical repertoire can change not only because of the educational level, it can change because of the culture, the customs among social groups.

Post by Andrea Di Cuonzo

Applied Linguistics History

The tradition of applied linguistics established itself in part as a response to the narrowing of focus in linguistics with the advent in the late 1950s of generative linguistics, and has always maintained a socially accountable role, demonstrated by its central interest in language problem.
Although the field of applied linguistics started from Europe and the United States, the field rapidly flourished in the international context.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_linguistics

From the begining Applied linguistics attemps to study and solve the problems about language and language acquisition, through the time others sciences supported applied linguistics in order to find the solution of language-related problems in the real world.
Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, linguistics, psychology, ethnography and sociology.The most important aspect is that applied linguistics gives us, as future teachers of a foreign language, the knowledge that we need to solve the language-related problems and depending on the case the science that can help to give a solution to the problem.

By Andrea Di Cuonzo