THE DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

History of the field:Focus on language pedagogy

Traditional Latin and Greek throughgrammar translation

    

How to learn to speak a L2 fast

Audiolingualism - the „Army method”

Pronunciation and conversation drills Focus on speech No explanation

and translation

How to best teach a language:Psychology and linguistics

Behaviourism and Bloomfieldian Linguistics

Tabula rasa Imitation, practice (Pavlov, Skinner) Discrete items (Bloomfield) Contrastive analysis (Lado)

Why can’t kids imitate

Cognitivism and Generative Grammar

Child language research (Berko) Cognitive development (Piaget) LAD (Chomsky) Deep structure – surface structure Competence – performance

What goes on in the human mind: Neurolingusitics and psycholinguistics

The neurological basis of language learning and use

How to define language knowledge

Council of Europe Language Project

Notions and functions for Threshold Levels

Rigorous linguistic study intellectual basis for the

development of ELT

Communicative Competence

„Én röfög kicsi német”

CALP and BICS (Dell Hymes)

Celce-Murcia (2008:46)

DISCOURSE COMPETENCE

INTERACTIONALCOMPETENCE:

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SOCIOCULTURALCOMPETENCE

LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE

FORMULAIC COMPETENCE

STRATÉGICCOMPETENCE:

(Learning)

Why don’t we say what we mean: Pragmatics

Gricean Maximsmannerqualityquantityrelevance

Speech Acts (Austin, Searle)

- Locution - Illocution- Perlocution

Contrastive rhetoric1. Ez egy nagyon finom vörösbor, állítólag Liszt

Ferencnek is ez volt a kedvence, remélem, önnek is megnyeri a tetszését.

2. This is a bottle of red wine, which is claimed to be a good one …

3. Amari oishii kono dewa nai keredomo, o-kuchi ni awanai kamoshiremasenga. (This red wine is not very good, I’m afraid you won’t like it.)

(Hidasi, 2004)

Cultural thought patterns in writing (R. Kaplan)

English Semitic Oriental Romance Russian

The narrow definition of AL:„the showpiece of linguistics”

Language teaching theory, language pedagogy

Testing ground for linguistics

The broad definition of AL: „the basket of many goodies”

Theoretical orientation:

sociolinguisticspsycholinguisticspragmaticsL1 and L2 acquisitiondiscourse analysis

o Practical orientation

L1 and L2 teachingtranslationdiscourse and conversation analysislanguage planningLSPneurolinguisticscomputational linguistics

What is applied?

The methods and findings of variousdisciplines

New definitions of linguistics (Strevens)

Formal linguistics A current best theory of language

exists based on linguistics Task of the scholar: contribute to the

development of theory Theory determines what research is

needed Practice should be restricted to the

validated results of that theory

Communicative linguistics

Problem driven Empirically grounded Multi-disciplinary Contextualised view of language Functionalist approach

What is linguistics about it?

AL investigates language in use

Linguistic descriptions of language and methods of linguistic enquiry

Aim is NOT to contribute to descriptions of language, but to solve practical problems