 Applied linguistics is commonly known as the branch of linguistics concerned

with practical applications of language studies, for example language

teaching, translation and speech theraphy

 Applied linguistics is normally used to refer to language teaching and studies

in second language acquisition, but more broadly speaking, applied linguistics
can refer to any area that puts linguistics theories into practice.

 Applied Linguistics Studies

1. Grammar-Translation Language Teaching

Students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating
sentences between the target language and the mother tongue.

2. The Direct Method

Teaching focuses on developing oral skills. In this method, students are
invited to use the target language directly.

3. ‘Natural’ Language Teaching

In the natural approach, language output is not forced, but allowed to
appear automatically once students notice a large amount of
understandable language input.

4. The Communicative Approach

Communicative Approach is the importance of interaction between
teachers and students and students with students in the learning process.

 d. Applied Linguistics examines the structure of language and its role in

communication, language acquisition, second language learning, how the
social or cultural environment interacts with language, structure of language
and its role in communication.
 e. Comparative linguistics is the study of differences and similarities
between languages. It focuses on the comparison of related languages.

 Definition the scope of applied linguistics

 Language and education
First, second, and foreign language education, clinical linguistics, and
language testing
 Language, work and law
 Workplace communication, language planning, and forensic
linguistics
 Language, information and effect
Literary stylistic, cricital discourse analysis, translation and
interpretation information design and lexicography

 it is important to note that a list of major language-based problems that

applied linguistics addresses along with the details mentioned by Kaplan as
follow
 Language learning problems (emergence, awareness, rules, use,
context, automaticity, attitudes, expertise)
 Language teaching problems (resources, training, practice, interaction,
understanding, use, contexts, inequalities, motivations, outcomes)
 Literacy problems (linguistic and learning issues)
 Language contact problems (language and culture)
 Language inequality problems (ethnicity, class, region, gender and
age).
 Language policy and planning problems (status planning and corpus
planning; ecology of language)
 Language assessment problems (validity, reliability, usability,
responsibility)
 Language use problems (dialects, registers, discourse communities,
gate keeping situations, limited access to services)
 Language and technology problems (learning, assessment, access and
use)
 Translation and interpretation problems (on-line, off-line, technology
assisted)
 Language pathology problems (aphasias, dyslexia, physical
disabilities).