1. THE DEFINITION AND SCOPE OF APPLIED LINGUISTICS

2. History of the field: Focus on language pedagogy
    
History of the field: Focus on language pedagogy
Traditional Latin and Greek through
grammar translation

3. How to learn to speak a L2 fast
Audiolingualism - the „Army method”
Pronunciation and
conversation drills
Focus on speech
No explanation
and translation

4. How to best teach a language: Psychology and linguistics
Behaviourism and Bloomfieldian Linguistics
Tabula rasa
Imitation, practice
(Pavlov, Skinner)
Discrete items
(Bloomfield)
Contrastive analysis
(Lado)

5. Why can’t kids imitate Cognitivism and Generative Grammar
Child language research (Berko)
Cognitive development (Piaget)
LAD (Chomsky)
Deep structure – surface structure
Competence – performance

6. What goes on in the human mind: Neurolingusitics and psycholinguistics
The neurological basis of language learning and use

7. How to define language knowledge
Council of Europe Language Project
Notions and functions for Threshold Levels
Rigorous linguistic study
intellectual basis for the development of ELT

8. Communicative Competence
„Én röfög kicsi német”
CALP and BICS
(Dell Hymes)

9. Celce-Murcia (2008:46)

10. Why don’t we say what we mean: Pragmatics
Gricean Maxims
manner
quality
quantity
relevance

11. Speech Acts (Austin, Searle)
Locution
Illocution
Perlocution

12. Contrastive rhetoric
1. Ez egy nagyon finom vörösbor, állítólag Liszt Ferencnek is ez volt a kedvence, remélem, önnek is megnyeri a tetszését.
2. This is a bottle of red wine, which is claimed to be a good one …
3. Amari oishii kono dewa nai keredomo, o-kuchi ni awanai kamoshiremasenga. (This red wine is not very good, I’m afraid you won’t like it.)
(Hidasi, 2004)

13. Cultural thought patterns in writing (R. Kaplan)
English Semitic Oriental Romance Russian

14. The narrow definition of AL: „the showpiece of linguistics”
Language teaching theory, language pedagogy
Testing ground for linguistics

15. The broad definition of AL: „the basket of many goodies”
Theoretical orientation:
sociolinguistics
psycholinguistics
pragmatics
L1 and L2 acquisition
discourse analysis

16. Practical orientation
L1 and L2 teaching
translation
discourse and conversation analysis
language planning
LSP
neurolinguistics
computational linguistics

17. What is applied?
The methods and findings of various
disciplines

18. New definitions of linguistics (Strevens)
Formal linguistics
A current best theory of language exists based on linguistics
Task of the scholar: contribute to the development of theory
Theory determines what research is needed
Practice should be restricted to the validated results of that theory

19. Communicative linguistics
Problem driven
Empirically grounded
Multi-disciplinary
Contextualised view of language
Functionalist approach

20. What is linguistics about it?
AL investigates language in use
Linguistic descriptions of language and methods of linguistic enquiry
Aim is NOT to contribute to descriptions of language, but to solve practical problems