Relationship between

Applied Linguistics
and Education
 A. Relationships between languages and language
borrowings, Language variations and their role for Education
Romance languages Germanic languages

• Definition: “The Romance languages (also • Definition: The Germanic languages are a branch of
sometimes called Romanic languages) are a the Indo-European languages Description:

language family in the Indo-European language languages spoken natively by a population of about
Description: They started from Vulgar Latin (In the 515 million people mainly in three groups: Europe,
Latin Language, "vulgar" is the word for North America, Oceania, and Southern Africa.
"common," so "Vulgar Latin" means "Common

Latin"). The biggest Romance languages are

Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italia n and Romanian

 B. Language variation definition
• The term linguistic variation (or simply variation) refers to regional,
social, or contextual differences in the ways that a particular language is
used. Variation between languages, dialects, and speakers is known as
intra speaker variation. Variation within the language of a single speaker is
called intra speaker variation
C. Implications of language variations for EFL teaching and
how language variations can be dealt in class
 Implications of language variations for EFL
teaching
• The language variation is considered
important in language teaching because its
contribution of cultural values regards to
the different ways of using the language
functions or other aspects of language like
vocabulary, pronunciation and so far so
forth. So that students know how to adjust
themselves while interacting in intercultural
communication in order to maintain
politeness and avoid miscommunication
• The writer wish that in the future the language
planner would decide which dialects as the
standard language, whether it is British or
American dialect, so teachers or educationalists
would design the curriculum or books or
teaching materials which can cover the
differences of language (culture, users, and the
use). Moreover, if the standard language has
already decided both teachers and learners would
perform better to achieve their aims in teaching
and learning the language. In another words, it
will give clearer goals of learning the language.
How Language Variations can be dealt in class

• Language variations can have • Students don’t leave their

concrete implications in the language patterns at the door
classroom. As a great deal of when they come to school, and
sociolinguistic research over the neither do teachers.
past 100 years has found, students
who speak non-standardized
varieties of a given language may
face linguistic hurdles at school