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Trends and Perspectives in the 1990s and the 2000s Trends and Perspectives in the 1990s and the 2000s
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The Problem-Based Nature of Applied Linguistics: It's the Problems, Not the Disciplines The Problem-Based Nature of Applied Linguistics: It's the Problems, Not the Disciplines
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Defining Applied Linguistics Defining Applied Linguistics
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Conclusion Conclusion
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21 Language Transfer and Cross Linguistic Studies: Relativism, Universalism, and the Native Language
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2 Applied Linguistics: A Twenty-First-Century Discipline
Get accessWilliam Grabe is professor of English at Northern Arizona University. He is interested in all aspects of reading and writing abilities: L1 and L2, child and adult, and theory and practice. He is also interested in issues pertaining to literacy, language policy, and applied linguistics more generally. He has co-authored Theory and Practice of Writing (1996, with Robert B. Kaplan). He is currently working on a book, Applied Linguistics in Action: Researching Reading (with Fredricka Stoller). He has just concluded his ten-year tenure as editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. He can be reached at william.grabe@nau.edu.
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
This article focuses on the field of applied linguistics as a twenty-first century discipline. A realistic history of the field of applied linguistics would place its origins at around the year 1948 with the publication of the first issue of the journal Language Learning: A Journal of Applied Linguistics. Although there are certainly other possible starting points, particularly from a British perspective, this dating still accords roughly with most discussions of the beginning of applied linguistics. Over the years, the term applied linguistics has been defined and interpreted in a number of different ways, and that exploration is continued in this overview. In the 1950s, the term was commonly meant to reflect the insights of structural and functional linguists that could be applied directly to second language teaching and also in some cases to first language literacy and language arts issues as well. Applied linguistics has many of the markings of an academic discipline.
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