What is Applied Linguistics? Applied linguistics is a vast field which caters multiple disciplines to investigate and solve language issues in the real world. It is often considered as the field of study focused with language teaching and learning which indeed is the broader view of the course. Applied Linguistics is the multidisciplinary field focuses on various disciplines such as psychology, educational research, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, pedagogy, political science, communication and media studies and economics . (________)The idea of discipline is highly politicized, ideological framing of the nature of academic work and an identification of an academic work as a discipline is not simply as categorization of activity but …show more content…
Grabe (2001) argues that Applied Linguistics deals with Language based problems in the real world. Catford (1998) argues, Applied Linguistics has moved from its early focus on language teaching to inclusion of several other aspects such as translation, Language planning, research in language policies. Despite this leap into addressing other areas besides language teaching, literature seems to support fact that most people view applied linguistics as either focusing entirely on language teaching or acting as a bridge between linguistics and language teaching. Applied Linguistics has undergone a considerable expansion of its scope and now contributes its theoretical perspectives to the range of areas. (Baynham 2001: 26). However, the scope of Applied Linguistics has been broadened to the practical perspectives of Language teaching and learning rather theoretical perspectives only, some of these areas are as …show more content…
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 euphemism, etc. • It tries to explain about the first language education, acquisation • 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. • Examines the scope of Language, Work and Law, discusses about communication in the workplace, language planning, and forensic linguistic. • It studies the literary stylistics, critical discourse analysis, translation and interpretation, information design, and lexicography. • applied linguists are concerned with helping planners and legislators in countries develop and implement a language policy • The optimal role of the mother tongue in the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students • the language of persuasion and politics, the cultural and economic reasons for the choice of