Applied Linguistics
Course Convenors: Dr Alessandro Benati and Silvia Stanton
Course Code: LING 1009
This course is intended to help students become familiar with some key areas in Applied Linguistics. The course is structured in three main themes:
- A description of language and language use
- Areas of enquiry in Applied Linguistics
- Four skills and assessment
After an initial orientation of the key issues of the field, this course will provide students with a substantial overview of the key concepts, issues, insights and pedagogical implications of the three main themes.
The main aims of the course:
a) to help students to become familiar with key issues in Applied Linguistics
b) to help students to become familiar with some of the research methodology used in the field
c) to explore the interface between second language acquisition theory and second language pedagogy
d) to develop an integrative holistic view of language