Session 1 An overview of Applied Linguistics

What is applied linguistics?

• Applied linguistics is about language issues

• Applied linguistics is concerned with increasing understanding of the role of language in human affairs

• It refers to how we learn languages

• It explains how we use languages

Choose a topic area of applied linguistics...

• meeting native speakers

• international conferences

• second and foreign language pedagogy

• foreign people

The primary concern of applied linguistics has been...

• primary writing and pronunciation

• primary language and grammar

• secondary language and speaking

• second language acquisition theory and second language pedagogy

Who contributed to the design of a curriculum beginning with good writing (grammar)?

• Robert and Samuel

• Plato and Aristotle

• Robert Lowth

• Samuel Johnson

Grammar-Translation Method refers to

• reading skills through vocabulary management

• listening and speaking as the primary skills

• some practice examples to translate from L1 into L2

• behaviourism

Universal Grammar refers to the idea that...

• students learn grammar through speaking

• children are born with an understanding of the way languages work

• people learn grammar through grammar

• adults learn general grammar

Language learning was a result of habit formation within ...

• communicative competence

• universal grammar

• behaviourism

• systemic-functional grammar

Psycholinguistic perspective refers to...

• emotional intelligence

• psychological perspective of language acquisition

• language traits

• teacher-fronted classes

Receptive skills imply...

• speaking and writing

• listening and pronunciation

• writing and reading

• listening and reading

Productive skills refer to...

• listening and speaking

• reading and listening

• speaking and writing

• speaking and reading