The Mastery Of Applied Linguistics And The Field Of Applied Linguistics

The mastery of applied linguistics and the field of applied linguistics

Analyzing the articles "The domain of applied linguistics" by Gloria Luque Agulló and "The field of applied linguistics. Introduction ”by Milagros Fernández Pérez, I can understand that the authors talk about linguistics, their varied disciplines and explain how it is still difficult to define linguistics

Both articles tell us that we do not have a clear definition of linguistics and that this lack led to shared research allowing the coexistence of a varied number of subdisciplins that complement each other and delimit applied linguistics. These proposed subdisciplines are six and include acquisition and learning of L2, teaching second languages, language for specific purposes, language psychology, language sociology and contrast of languages, translation and interpretation.

In the two articles, Gloria Agulló and Milagros Pérez talk about the origin of applied linguistics and explain that she appeared in public pela first time in 1948, in the Language Learning magazine: a Journal of Applied Linguistic, and that she has gained popularity due to the need forcreate a scientific discipline that founded languages and learning. His statement as an interdisciplinary domain originated in 1964, in the first International Congress in Nancy, France.

They also reveal that there were several external and internal contextual reasons that originate the applied linguistics. The Second World War as an example, where good communication was necessary between the troops that had more languages through more effective teaching methods conceived by linguists.

The independence of several countries and the problems derived from linguistics will also lead to the elaboration of different manuals, grammar and other education methods. As internal causes we have examples of the progress of the notion of theory versus application, that is, pure linguistic vs. applied linguistics. Many researchers recognize the independence of applied linguistics as a discipline and, at the same time, accept their mediator role.

In "The mastery of applied linguistics", Gloria Luque Agulló shows us the various issues of application of discipline and the opinions of different authors. For example, Bugarski (1987: 9) speaks of the recognized fields of applied linguistics, two general areas and the issues included in both: psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics or a combination of the duas.

Allen and Corder (1973-1977) talk about teaching and have disciplines such as sociolinguistics, psychology, pragmatics, stylistics and research methodology in consideration.

Widdowson studying various issues related to each other. The analysis of discourse, grammar, lexicon, the acquisition of second languages, culture and language, translation, corpus linguistics, curricular design, communicative method, teacher education, reading and teaching reading and reading andWriting, methodology, specific purposes, teachers’ roles, simplification and accessibility.

Cook and Seidlhofer (1995) talk about areas related to applied linguistics, such as speech therapy, communicative interactions, planning and linguistic policy, language and education and learning and teaching of languages. They will consider translation and lexicography as separate areas, but can be included within the discipline. For them, the center of applied linguistics is teaching and learning, especially English language.

FERNANDEZ (1996) indicates that applied linguistics must deal with linguistic phenomena in its reality and in all its dimensions, including language didactics, translationology, linguistic planning, clinical linguistics and computational linguistics.

Beaugrande (1997) defines that applied linguistics covers from general linguistic learning operations to specialized communication strategies such as poetry translation.

Davies (1999) refers to some functions of applied linguistics such as improving teaching, diagnosing speech pathologies, teaching translators and performers, developing reliable exams, evaluating bilingual school programs, measuring literacy, analyzing the language of a text and providingorientation on educational or forensic linguistic matters.

Finally, McCarthy (2001: 1-2) recounts at least fourteen issues about the problems that applied linguistics could include, some examples are the therapy to solve speech problems, influences of the first language in the learning-teaching of another,Methods to investigate the originality of manuscripts, evolution of linguistic uses as a result of age, creation of non -literate dictionaries, among many others.

In this article, different tables are also given to us that show the diversity of issues that, according to several authors, includes applied linguistics and their evolution over several decades and the relationship between the different positions commented and with themes addressed in associationNational linguistics applied and in international association of applied linguistics. The tables show us the mastery of applied linguistics grouping their subdisciplins in six different blocks to systematize the mastery of applied linguistics.

The author concludes by saying that in today the applied linguistics is constituted by its thematic domains, but that the historical origin and the entity of applied linguistics has its starting point in the language, teaching and learning, to which the surrounding thecontext, its three fundamental axes.

It also presents a triangle where all these subdisciplines of applied linguistics, language, teaching and learning meet, in which applied linguistics is the mediator. This triangle helps us better understand than originally applied linguistics was considered a mediating discipline between the problems derived from the language, their teaching and their learning. Then, it has been incorporating topics and collaborating with other disciplines, giving rise to a domain with at least 6 thematic blocks: acquisition and learning, teaching second languages for specific purposes, language psychology, language sociology and language contrast, translation and translationinterpretation.

Finally, it shows us that there are problems in defining linguistics applied by areas because you can lead to scientific isolation or separatism.

The second article, “The field of applied linguistics. Introduction ”of Miracles Fernández Pérez, also tells us about theoretical linguistics versus applied linguistics.

Milagros Pérez tells us that applied linguistics is drawn as the opposite of theoretical linguistics. The characterization components must be valued to achieve positive and not only opposing delimitations. It also gives us some ways of distinction between theoretical and linguistic linguistics applied, if theoretical linguistics is grown in order to achieve knowledge, applied linguistics aims at the scope of solutions to material problems posed in the languages.

This article presents the author Eliasson (1987,23), which distinguishes by the mode of research theoretical linguistics, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics and applied linguisticThe "pure" slope the "theoretical" slope and the "synchronous" slope.

It also speaks of the existence of linguistics applied in technical reasons and distinguishes several senses of application and can only speak of applied linguistics in those cases in which the theory is used to elucidate problems in the world to make a modification and improve a structure,behavior or situation. Applied linguistics is recognized for not being the one that corresponds to theoretical linguistics, rather than by presenting a series of unique features and properties or by containing a set of particular areas.

Author Bugarski (1987), also presented in Gloria’s article, argues that uniformity to achieve a unit criterion to support the field of applied linguistics.

Kuhlwein said that the distinction between theoretical science and applied science from the field of natural sciences is not well in the field of human sciences such as linguistics, whose object of study is complex and requires the simultaneous intervention of multiple fatores, so much so that notapplication theory can be separated.

As soon as the theory does not ultrapas the achievement stadium, applied linguistics is for only knowledge, also wants to use it to solve various problems. This seems valid to the theoretical relationship vs. applied.

It also shows us the areas that make up applied linguistics and its extension. In the field of theoretical linguistics the disciplines are established by their object of study and only afterwards are integrated into the area by the purpose, in the field of applied linguistics the areas are emerging as material problems and solution needs arise. The variety in applied linguistics, as well as the lack of a defined research philosophy, has not been an impediment in reality to build areas of application and achieve resolutive scope about those material problems posed by language and languages.

Van Els et alii (1988, 139) say that applied linguistics is the learning and teaching of foreign languages and that it is an autonomous discipline.

Also computational linguistics and linguistic planning are areas of applied linguistics. Computational linguistics focuses its interest on the set of aspects, factors, processes, elements, etc. that intervene in the computing of language;Applied linguistics and theoretical linguistics maintain strong relationships in various ways and the repercussions of advances occur both from the theory to application and from application to the theory. The autonomy attributed to applied linguistics should not be understood in the sense of rupture or absence of coincidences with theoretical linguistics, but must be interpreted in the sense that the philosophy adopted in the field of the applied must be the result ofthe needs raised and the scope achieved in said field, and not a vault of what prevails in the field of theoretical.

The linguistics applied as an occupied terrain in complex phenomena, integrates the multidisciplinary aspects that involve the facts in each case. The objective of solving the real problems guides and selects the channels and the aspects of integration, so that it is not possible to add without furtherMark the research layout and the construction of theory in our field. So much so that applied linguistics, without impairing the materialist and practical philosophical that defines it, elaborates unique objects of study, not taken from other areas.

After this brief summary of the article by Gloria Luque Agulló and the article by Milagros Fernández Pérez, could clarify my doubts about linguistics and how I can understand it taking into account that it does not have a specific definition. When reading the articles, I could have an idea of the perspectives of the different authors and I have managed to understand that it is not possible to properly define applied linguist and the theoretical denominator versus applied applied. Inclusive, Milagros Pérez tells us that applied linguistics is drawn as the opposite of theoretical linguistics, the characterization components must be assessed to achieve positive delimitations and not only opposed. It also gives us some ways of distinction between theoretical and linguistic linguistics applied, if theoretical linguistics is grown in order to achieve knowledge, applied linguistics aims at the scope of solutions to material problems posed in the languages.

Concluding, applied linguistics must deal with linguistic phenomena in its reality and in all its dimensions. In my opinion, all the authors presented in the two articles complement each other when they talk about the different areas of applied linguistics and the thoughts and proposals are being developed over the years or that are a great help to perceive everything orthat this discipline can cover.

Bibliography

• Agulló, G (2004). Domain of applied linguistics. Jaen University.
• Pérez, m. (nineteen ninety six). The field of applied linguistics. Introduction. University of Santiago de Compostela.