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AL
Lec. 1
How did the term come into
existence?
Crystal (1985)
AL is a branch of linguistics…where the
primary concern is the application of
linguistic theories, methods and findings to
the elucidation of language problems which
have arisen in other areas of experience.
What is applied linguistics?
Corder (1974)
Streven (1992)
Schmitt (2002)
It is using what we know about (i)
languag, (ii) how it is learned, & (iii) how
it is used in order to achieve some
purpose or solve some problem in the
real world.
What is applied linguistics?
Kaplan (2002)