Applied Linguistics

Applied Linguistics

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*  Is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related to real-life problems. (like education, linguistics,psychology, computer science, communication research, anthropology, and sociology). Major branches of applied linguistics include bilingualism and multilingualism, computer-mediated communication (CMC), conversation analysis,contrastive linguistics, sign linguistics, language assessment, literacies, discourse analysis, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, lexicography, language planning and policy,interlinguistics, stylistics, pragmatics, forensic linguistics and translation. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_linguistics

* Is concerned with the systematic study of language structure, the acquisition of first and subsequent languages, the role of language in communication, and the status of language as the product of particular cultures and other social groups.
http://www.brocku.ca/humanities/departments-and-centres/applied-linguistics/about/what-is-applied-linguistics 

* The use of language-related research in a wide variety of fields, including language acquisition, language teaching, literacy, literary studies, gender studies, speech therapy, discourse analysis, censorship, workplace communication, media studies, translation studies, lexicography, and forensic linguistics.
http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/appliedlinguisticsterm.htm

My own definition

Applied Linguistics is related to the study of the language in a variety of fields, such as language acquisition, language teaching, literacy, literary studies, gender studies, speech therapy, discourse analysis, censorship, workplace communication, media studies, translation studies, lexicography, and forensic linguistics.



2- Based on the definition you created FOR YOU, what are some issues concerned in the field of Applied Linguistics?

- The acquisition of different languages in a society.
- The differences between one language and other, and its use in an specific place.
- How humans acquire a second language depending on their context.


3- What area of concern of Applied Linguistics would you be interested in exploring? 

* Second language acquisition


4- Find information about possible topics that you would be interested in researching related to the area that you are interested in.

In the following link you will see a short presentation about Second Language Acquisition.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z2HyeCbdUkVQ1g13yTG9kuFpGlXdAWhNeU6PPe-e-Ic/edit

Psycholonguistics

General introduction of Psycholinguistics.

Sociolinguistics

1. What is the relationship between society and language?

Society is a group of people that within a comunity keep comunication each other; and language is the way which people in a society can comunicate.

2. If we talk about the same language, why do you think it varies from one place to another?

Maybe because every city in our country has different cultures and environments so, people change the vocabulary, its pronunciation and the utterance.

3. Besides the place, what other things do you think affects the way we speak?

I think every place has different context and specific culture in the society. Maybe it is because of that.

4. What is the difference between accent and dialect.

Accent: Is the way of pronunciation by a speaker with shared characteristic of a certain locality within the comunity.

Dialect: It refers to a variety of a language that is a characteristic of a particular group of the language´s speakers. It comes from regional speech patterns, but also is related to the social class.