An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory - Couverture rigide

Davies, Alan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748633545 ISBN 13 : 9780748633548

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This title is intended for undergraduate students of Linguistics, Masters' level students on courses in Applied Linguistics, Language in Education, Language Planning and more, and language teachers.This Second Edition of the foundational textbook, An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a state of the art account of contemporary applied linguistics. The kinds of language problems of interest to applied linguists are discussed and a distinction drawn between the different research approach taken by theoretical linguists and by applied linguists to what seem to be the same problems. Professor Davies describes a variety of projects which illustrate the interests of the field and highlight the marriage it offers between practical experience and theoretical understanding. The increasing emphasis of applied linguistics on ethicality is linked to the growth of professionalism and to the concern for accountability, manifested in the widening emphasis on critical stances.This, Davies argues, is at its most acute in the tension between giving advice as the outcome of research and taking political action in order to change a situation which, it is claimed, needs ameliorisation. This dilemma is not confined to applied linguistics and may now be endemic in the applied disciplines.The book has been updated throughout and provides an excellent, up-to-date introduction to the problems and issues that arise in the practice of applied linguistics.This book considers the main ongoing issues in applied linguistics and their current manifestations in, for example, the native speaker and World Englishes. It examines the influence of linguistics, cognitive science and philosophy on applied linguistics and makes a contrast with educational linguistics. It proposes that a key issue for the profession will increasingly be the tension between advice and action. It suggests that applied linguistics is a theorising rather than a theoretical discipline.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alan Davies is a long-term member of staff of the Department of Applied Linguistics in the University of Edinburgh. Now Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, he is a former editor of the two journals Applied Linguistics and Language Testing and was for five years Director of the Language Testing Research Centre, University of Melbourne.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748633545
• ISBN 13: 9780748633548
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible