AP and SLA 王国祥.ppt

Applied linguistics and SLA Toby Wang Longnan Teachers College English Department Chapter 1 What is Applied linguistics I. A brief history II. Definition and scope III. The role of applied linguistics IV. Theoretical bases V. The nature of applied linguistics VI. Applied linguistics and the language teacher I. A brief history first introduced as early as 1871 by the Polish linguist J. Baudouin de Courtenay was a subdiscipline of linguistics for decades until 1946 that it was established as an independent discipline at the University of Michigan in the United States until the 1960s that it began to develop vigorously. The birth of applied linguistics as a discipline is closely associated with FLT. In October, 1964, the 1st World Congress of Applied Linguistics was held in Nancy, France the Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee (AILA) was set up. This marked the recognition of the status of applied linguistics as an independent discipline. cover the following topics: Artificial intelligence Bilingualism and multilingualism Cognition and psycholinguistics Computational linguistics Contrastive linguistics and error analysis Corpus linguistics Cultural anthropology and ethno-linguistics Distance analysis Educational technology First language learning and teaching FLT Intercultural communication International languages Interpreting and translating Issues in Chinese character-based language and culture Language and ecology Language and international economic activities Language and media Language and philosophy Language and power, professions and gender Language for specific purposes Language planning and language policy Language testing and evaluation Language and the brain Lexicography Linguistic theories Literature, rhetoric and stylistics Literacy Minority language and cultures Nonverbal communication and sign language Pragmatics Second language acquisition Sociolinguistics Teaching Japanese as a foreign language Others II. Definition and scope Th