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In addition, an extreme area of applied linguistics that is called critical applied linguistics
highlights the following concerns and issues like identity, ethics, disparity, desire and the
reproduction of otherness that have not been up to now considered to be connected to applied
linguistics. What have been mentioned is an attempt to use applied linguistics concerns and
activities to explain and analyze what applied linguistics methods and purposes are. This is
called the ostensive definition approach.
These ostensive views have a problem because they really do not help in creating syllabuses in
applied linguistics and they do not help in determining what things that are needed to be
included in the profession. Those who argue for a dictionary definition believed that applied
linguistics has a core do not accept ostensive definitions. For example, Widdowson claims that
applied linguistics has got a core and he rejects the claim that says that applied linguistics is a
mixture of many disciplines.
Widdowson and Cook believed that “the task of applied linguistics is to mediate between
linguistics and language use”. Another definition of applied linguistics by Guy Cook is “the
academic discipline concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision
making in that real world”. However, the scope of applied linguistics is still not clear. He tried
to create boarder lines to the areas of concern in applied linguistics as consisting of language
and education, language, work and law and language, information and effect. The most
important thing is that applied linguistics must be protected from the claim that says that
language is everywhere, then applied linguistics is the science of everything.
speech therapy, translation and language planning. By accepting the following working
definition that is, “applied linguistics is the theoretical and empirical investigation of real –
world problems in which language is the central issue”. These real – world problems include
the following failure and success, ability and disability, ethical and cultural, gender issues,
technology and lack of resources, difficulty and simplicity and child and adult.
Conclusion:
The problem about applied linguistics is that it is not a common one among applied disciplines.
Applied linguistics has emerged in the 1950s and its main target is language teaching. Applied
linguistics has no limits because it assesses language proficiency issues, what is the appropriate
age of starting teaching and learning a second language, memory loss and so on. The solution
of such problems are local and for the present time. Therefore, applied linguistics is a need
because it is applied on different societies that face the mentioned problems.
It is clear that English played an important role in developing applied linguistics. The
contribution of the English language to the development of applied linguistics is due to the
domination of the English language in terms of politics and economics. All applied fields
disciplines develop because of the need to provide training in newly appearing technical and
professional occupation. This implies that the relationship between theoretical linguistics and
applied linguistics should put applied linguistics in the first position and theoretical linguistics
in the second position. By this sequence, theoretical linguistics will respond to the questions
raised by applied linguistics. For example, if a problem is faced in the area of error analysis,
the reference will be second language acquisition.