Applied Linguistics in the Classroom

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Moulton
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
General Topic ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
As If

When our Secretary, George Winchester Stone, asked me last July to address this meeting on the general topic of language teaching and linguistics, it was only with considerable hesitation that I finally agreed to accept. There has been far too much loose talk recently about the application of linguistics to language teaching, and I did not wish to add to it. In some circles linguistics has turned into a sort of fad. There are those who talk of the “linguistic method” of language teaching, as if to oppose it to some hypothetical “non-linguistic method” used in the benighted past. And at meetings of language teachers, bright young things walk up to me and ask, apparently in all seriousness: “Excuse me, professor, but would you please tell me how linguistics handles the subjunctive?” Needless to say, I have no answers to such questions; they merely embarrass me. Linguistics is not a teaching method, but a growing body of knowledge and theory; and though it may offer helpful answers to some of the problems of language teaching, it surely does not know all the answers.

scholarly journals Communicative Language Teaching Method in Teaching the Kazakh Language to Russian-Speaking Technical Students in Kazakhstan

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
N. M. Aubakirov ◽  
A. A. Dolgopolova
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Traditional Grammar

The article deals with the specifics of teaching Kazakh language to Russian-speaking technical students at Karaganda State Technical University, Kazakhstan, in the light of the nationwide trilingualism policies. The paper explains ineffectiveness of the traditional grammar-translation method used today in many educational institutions. It  has been hypothesized that Kazakh language teachers should use the  Communicative language teaching (CLT) methodology, which is rather popular in the West and widely used for teaching foreign languages, in particular English, with its adaptation for Kazakhstan’s conditions. The study  gives a model of a communication-based lesson and proves its effectiveness  in teaching Kazakh language to Russian-speaking students as well as  suggests the possibility of its widespread implementation for training adult population in Kazakhstan.

Het Belang Van Taalkunde Voor de Toegepaste Taalkunde

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 246-257
Author(s):  
A.G. Sciarone
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Understanding ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
Task Division

Applied Linguistics is generally regarded as a multidisciplinary field in which didactics, psychology and linguistics participate. It is remarkable that within the context of foreign language teaching the focus is mainly on the didactic experiment and on the construction of psycholinguistic hypotheses. Yet for a linguistic-didactic experiment to be relevant, insight in what is to be taught, viz. language,is necessary. Many variants of language teaching could have been avoided with a better linguistic insight. Moreover, a better linguistic understanding in applied linguis-tics leads to a better distinction between the views of linguists on language didactics and psycholinguistics and the descriptions of language they give. In this paper the relation between grammar and vocabulary is discussed. It is argued that this distinction is based more on definition than on reality. Stressing the importance of the role of vocabulary does not imply denying or minimising the importance of grammar. On the contrary, the traditional task division in linguistics between grammar and lexicology has led to a sterile grammatical description. Recent tendencies in linguistics now show a more integrated description of grammar and vocabu-lary. Finally, with regard to the didactically important problem of vocabu-lary selection, some remarks are made concerning the difference between selection on the basis of linguistic properties and selection on the basis of usually arbitrary non-linguistic idiosyncrasies of words and the influence of this on teaching material. This is illustrated with examples from language courses.

scholarly journals Current Teaching Methods Used for English Language Teaching in Upper Elementary School and the Preferred Ones for the Lower Grades

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Shereen Alhindi ◽  
Maha Halabi
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Upper Elementary ◽  
Elementary Grades ◽  
English Language Teachers

There is no doubt that the teaching method has a significant effect on the student`s outcome and the responsibility for choosing the right method falls on the teacher. With experience, the teacher will be able to decide which method will fit the student’s needs. This research examines the most popular teaching methods and materials for teaching the English language in Saudi public schools, particularly in the upper elementary grades. It also aims to explore the perceptions of English language teachers of the methods and materials they consider to be the most effective in the teaching of lower elementary grades in Saudi public schools, who will be exposed to the English language for the first time. The sample of the study comprised 44 English teachers in Saudi public schools. The findings show that the majority of the English language teachers use Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) either alone or with other teaching methods. Moreover, most of them are willing to use it with the low grades of elementary. The findings also show that the most used materials in the classroom are videos, pictures, audiovisuals and the least used are written texts. These were the same materials that the teachers would like to use (with the same order of preference) for teaching the lower elementary grades. The findings have implications for current English language teachers who are willing to change their way of teaching and future teachers who would benefit from being aware of the effective methods of teaching the elementary grades in particular.

scholarly journals 25 Years of HOW: A Celebration of Language Teaching and Learning

HOW ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 18-30
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Sánchez-Solarte
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Language Teaching And Learning

This article overviews the major themes and pedagogical developments that have emerged via the academic endeavors of practitioners and researchers in the last 30 years, while also touching on how my work adheres to these developments. The document starts with a brief historical background on the establishment of HOW as a resource for the academic community. The next part of the article deals with the theoretical tenets that have influenced my published works. One of those perspectives is the post-method pedagogy, which acknowledges the limitations of attempting to determine what the “best” language teaching method is for everyone, and proposes three parameters to guide language teaching and learning. The next perspective is the psychology of language learning, particularly positive psychology, which is a field that adds balance to the study of negative emotions in the classroom and can be the basis for interventions that aim at enhancing the language learning process. The final construct discussed in the article is metacognition, which refers to how language teachers adapt their mental processes and behaviors to the emerging demands of their context. The article concludes highlighting a number of topics that were relevant three decades ago and that will likely keep their relevance in the future: the complexity of education, the dynamic nature of context and meaning, and the examination of the role of context in the L2 teaching/learning processes, to name only three.

Towards a More Articulate Australia: The Case for Applied Linguistics and Language Centres

1973 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-62
Author(s):  
D. E. Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
Post Graduate Training ◽  
Speech Education ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
Research Facilities

The urgent need to develop in Australians inter-cultural understanding and the ability to communicate with non-English speakers is observed. The failure of the present education system to cope with this need is traced back to insufficient and low quality language teaching. It is argued that this problem can be rectified only through better understanding of the nature of the task, i.e., especially by more emphasis on the study of linguistics in the education of teachers of language. Rather than for general linguistics, however, the need is shown to be for facilities for work in applied linguistics. Language centres are shown to be the ideal site for such work since their inter-disciplinary nature brings together workers in all the sciences of language and language teaching. The lack of such centres in Australia has led to the difficulty language teachers face of finding worthwhile post-graduate training or research facilities in Australia. It is emphasized throughout that the notions discussed, though especially relevant to foreign language teaching, are also pertinent to other forms of language teaching (such as English to native speakers and speech education).

scholarly journals The Distinguishing Characteristic of Task-based Language Assessment

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 688-695
Author(s):  
Majeed Noroozi ◽  
Seyyedmohammad Taheri
Keyword(s):  
Language Teaching ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Distinguishing Characteristic ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Assessment Measure ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Growing Body

Since its advent, the principles of Task-Based Language Teaching have been extended to assessment giving rise to Task-Based Language Assessment. Despite the growing body of research on the efficacy of Task-Based Language Teaching in instruction, the application of the assessment based on the tenets of Task-Based Language Teaching has been mainly neglected in some studies owing to their lack of use of Task-Based Language Assessment to measure the effectiveness of Task-Based Language Teaching (viz., Li, et al., 2016). The present study emphasizes the importance of Task-Based Language Assessment and highlights the feature that distinguishes this type of assessment from other assessments. The study concludes that while the performance-referenced feature of Task-Based Language Assessment is an essential characteristic thereof, it is, in fact, the holistic and direct feature of Task-Based Language Assessment that distinguishes it from other assessments. The more the assessment measure is incorporated in the performance of assessment tasks, the more the assessment tasks are based on the tenets of Task-Based Language Assessment. Therefore, the holistic and contextualized assessment tasks improve the confidence with which language teachers could generalize the results of the assessment tasks to real-life situations.

scholarly journals Speech Processing and Fluency Model: New Directions for improving Speaking Skills

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S11) ◽  
pp. 2930-2933
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Speech Processing ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Applied Linguistics ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Second Language Speakers ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Second Language Teachers

The framework of complexity, accuracy and fluency (CAF) has gained currency in the area of applied linguistics research, language teaching and testing in order to analyze the oral language performance of second language speakers ever since Skehan (1996) proposed it. Many studies have tried to relate CAF framework with the various models of speech processing in order to ground it psycholingustically. However, there is a need to offer more clarity regarding the psycholinguistics of speech processing and its specific relationship with the complexity, accuracy and fluency. This paper is an attempt to situate CAF framework on Levelt’s Model of Speech Processing (Levelt 1989) thereby providing it a stronger psycholinguistics foundation. It also aims to provide a more specific explanation about what gets reflected as accuracy, complexity and fluency in speech. The paper concludes by offering more specific questions that second language teachers in particular and applied linguists in general may consider exploring the concept further.

scholarly journals The Differences Between Arabic Language Teaching for Single Rooted Foreign Speakers and Multiple Rooted Foreign Speakers

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-39
Author(s):  
Alfiyatul Azizah
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Creative Media ◽  
Foreign Speakers ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Better Than

The Arabic language teaching has been developed rapidly through this modern era as a result of the world wide acceptance to study this language. Language enthusiasts as well as the scholars have noticed some development of Arabic language on several ways as well as its advancement according to the linguistic and geographic condition of learners. This study aims to understand some differences of Arabic language teaching for students who speak in single rooted language and students who speak in multiple rooted language. The single rooted language one took a sample from Assalam Islamic Boarding School where all of the student came from single rooted language, Malay language. While another one took a sample from An-Nile Center of Arabic Language Study for Foreigner, Cairo where the students came from several roots of languages, such as Malay, European, Russian, Turkish, African, and so on. In addition, this study aims to understand some difficulties and challenges the students and teachers face, and compare the percentage results of 4 language development skills between the two groups. The result of this study, based on those two institutions’ Arabic teaching methods, it is concluded that the comparison result of 4 language skills shows that the Arabic teaching method for Multiple Rooted Foreign Speakers (Taken from An-Nile Arabic Language Center) is better than Arabic teaching for the single rooted language speakers, especially on the speaking skill. In another side, we found that one of reasons why Arabic teaching method for foreigners from single rooted language speakers is weaker— is due to the tendency of language teachers to perform translation for Arabic words into their own particular language and the less of creative media invention uses which allow them to explain Arabic words with Arabic language.

The Use of Multimedia Technology in English Language Teaching: A Global Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min Pun
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Effective Manner

This paper aims to analyze the use of technology to English language teaching in the non-native speaking countries and to bring out the problems faced by both teachers and learners of English. The rapid development of science and technology such as multimedia technology has offered a better tool to explore the new teaching method. In fact, multimedia technology has played an important role in English language teaching, especially, in the non-native speaking of English situations. It also aims to make non-native speakers of English as language teachers aware of the strategies to use it in an effective manner. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ctbijis.v1i1.10466   Crossing the Border: International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Vol.1(1) 2013; 29-38

scholarly journals English Foreign Language Teachers’ Pedagogical Beliefs: Traditional Teaching and Language Socialisation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. p101
Author(s):  
Alanazi Khatmah
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Teaching Methodologies

Teachers’ beliefs play a key role in the selection of language teaching methodologies. They affect teachers’ pedagogical practices and behaviors and are, consequently, integral in shaping the language learning classroom environment. This study investigates the beliefs of teachers of English as a Foreign Language in relation to the concepts of traditional teaching method (e.g., Grammar-Translation Method) and language socialisation which emphasises the importance of socialization within social norms of the target community through exposure and interaction. The study uses questionnaire and interview to examine the beliefs of 28 teachers about language teaching methods in a Saudi higher education context. The findings revealed that, despite the fact that teachers continue to believe in traditional teaching methods, they show considerable support for language socialisation in language learning. Therefore, the findings suggest the need for teachers to explore their beliefs on teaching the foreign language and creating teachers’ awareness of teaching methodologies (e.g., awareness of factors associated with language socialisation such as interaction and the focus on meaning rather than form).

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