jueves, 11 de octubre de 2007

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.



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

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