An Introduction to Applied Linguistics An Introduction to Applied Linguistics provides a complete, authoritative and up-to- date overview of the state of the field. Divided into three sections covering: a descrip- tion of language and language use; essential areas of enquiry; and the four skills and testing, the third edition of this highly successful textbook provides: an introductory chapter which familiarises readers with key issues and recurrent themes; 17 chapters offering extended surveys of central elements of applied linguistics; two brand-new chapters on multilingualism and forensic linguistics; re-written chapters on psycholinguistics, language learners, reading and assessment; hands-on activities and further reading sections for each chapter, encouraging practical analysis and wider reading; revised and updated references for every chapter. Co-edited by two leading international specialists, with its accessible style, broad coverage and practical focus, this book is ideal for students of applied linguistics, TESOL and second language pedagogy, as well as practicing teachers and researchers wishing to update their knowledge. Norbert Schmitt is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
He has taught in the areas of vocabulary studies, applied linguistics, SLA and TESOL methodology. He has published extensively, is a regular presenter at applied linguistics conferences, and travels widely consulting and teaching on vocabulary issues. Rodgers is Assistant Professor in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, where he teaches TESOL methodology and SLA theory. His research interests include vocabulary acquisition and language learn- ing through television.
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| Previous edition published by Hodder Education, 2010. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Identifiers: LCCN 2018035634 (print) | LCCN 2018041681 (ebook) | ISBN 9780429424465 (Master) | ISBN 9781138290129 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138290136 (pbk.) Subjects: LCSH: Applied linguistics. Classification: LCC P129 (ebook) | LCC P129 .I544 2019 (print) | DDC 418–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.gov/2018035634 ISBN: 978-1-138-29012-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-29013-6 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-42446-5 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Taylor & Francis Books If you want peace, work for justice Contents List of figures ix List of tables x Preface xi 1 An overview of applied linguistics 1 NORBERT SCHMITT AND MARIANNE CELCE-MURCIA PART 1 Description of language and language use 17 2 Grammar 19 DIANE LARSEN-FREEMAN AND JEANETTE DECARRICO 3 Vocabulary 35 PAUL NATION AND PAUL MEARA 4 Discourse analysis 55 MICHAEL MCCARTHY, CHRISTIAN MATTHIESSEN AND DIANA SLADE 5 Pragmatics 72 HELEN SPENCER-OATEY AND VLADIMIR ŽEGARAC 6 Corpus linguistics 91 RANDI REPPEN AND RITA SIMPSON-VLACH PART 2 Essential areas of enquiry in applied linguistics 109 7 Second language acquisition 111 NINA SPADA AND PATSY M.
LIGHTBOWN 8 Psycholinguistics 128 EMILY N. MECH, ANDREA TAKAHESU TABORI, JUDITH F. KROLL AND KEES DE BOT viii Contents 9 Sociolinguistics 146 CARMEN LLAMAS AND PETER STOCKWELL 10 Focus on the language learner: Styles, strategies and motivation 165 ANDREW D. COHEN AND ALASTAIR HENRY 11 Forensic linguistics and language and the law 190 TATIANA TKACUKOVA 12 Multilingualism 205 SHELLEY K.
TAYLOR PART 3 Language skills and assessment 221 13 Listening 223 TONY LYNCH AND DAVID MENDELSOHN 14 Speaking and pronunciation 240 ANNE BURNS AND BARBARA SEIDLHOFER 15 Reading 259 XIANGYING JIANG, WILLIAM GRABE AND PATRICIA L. CARRELL 16 Writing 279 PAUL KEI MATSUDA AND TONY SILVA 17 Assessment 294 CAROL A. CHAPELLE, BENJAMIN KREMMEL AND GEOFF BRINDLEY 18 Suggested solutions 317 Bibliography 333 Index 387 Figures 2.1 Interconnected dimensions of grammar 23 4.1 The cline between spoken and written discourse 57 4.2 Approaches to discourse analysis according to disciplinary origins (adapted from Eggins and Slade, 2005) 59 6.1 MonoConc concordance display of KWIC for the target word like 101 7.1 Airport cartoon used to elicit examples of questions from a group of young learners of L2 English 124 9.1 Distribution of variants of /r/ in Middlesbrough English 158 9.2 Distribution of variants of /p/ in Middlesbrough English 159 17.1 Fundamental components of testing 296 17.2 The conceptualization of inference in ability testing 297 17.3 The conceptualization of inference in performance testing 298 17.4 Degree of specificity in construct definition 298 17.5 Dimensions defining the options for construct definition 299 17.6 Factors involved in the relationship between a test method and performance as outlined by Douglas (1998) 301 Tables 3.1 A frequency list of a 500-word text 38 3.2 Number of words and coverage for each frequency 38 3.3 Four vocabulary learning strands 53 4.1 Differences between informal and formal spoken discourse 58 4.2 Hymes’s SPEAKING grid (Hymes, 1972b) 62 6.1 The 50 most frequent words in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) 98 6.2 Words with a frequency of 50 in MICASE 99 7.1 Developmental stages for question formation (adapted from Lightbown and Spada, 2013).1 Selected International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols 151 9.2 Design of the fieldwork sample 157 10.1 Some commonly used communication strategies 170 10.2 A brief sampling of strategies associated with different skill areas 173 11.1 Simplification of juror instructions 196 13.1 Micro-skill clusters in listening comprehension 229 13.3 Sources of difficulty in second language listening 234 14.1 Characteristic choices that characterize a narrative 245 17.1 Summary of predictions and results in a quantitative validity argument 303 17.2 The use of correlation in validation research 305 17.3 Two sets of scores that show a negative relationship 305 17.4 Summary of predictions and results for ESL vocabulary items 313 17.5 Developing a test of ESL Business English 314 18.1 Four vocabulary learning strands 318 Preface This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those areas.
The book is written at the ‘sophisticated introduction’ level, where the most current ideas in the field are presented, but explained in language that is accessible and direct. After having engaged with the knowledge in this introductory book, you should be able to move on to more advanced books and articles, such as those recommended at the end of each chapter in the ‘Further reading’ section. In addition to helping you become familiar with the issues in Applied Linguistics, the book will also help you become familiar with some of the research methodology currently being used in the field. Knowledge of this methodology is important in order to be able to read and understand original research studies in books and journals on Applied Linguistics.
A number of chapter authors show you how research in their area is carried out (for example, Chapter 9, Sociolinguistics, and Chapter 13, Listening), which should enable you to gain a greater awareness of various research approaches. In addition, each chapter has some data for you to analyse and interpret, with the authors’ suggested solutions at the end of the book. These ‘Hands-on activities’ will help to understand the information in each chapter better, because you will use some of it in your own analyses. Applied Linguistics is a big field and one person cannot be an expert in all areas.
To ensure that chapters contain an authoritative treatment of an area, most are co- authored by two (and sometimes three or four) leading international specialists. By having multiple specialists writing together, the chapters can represent an expert con- sensus of the most important issues in that area. The various teams of authors working in their own separate areas have naturally developed different ways of discussing issues, and we have decided to let each team retain their own ‘voice’ and style, rather than try to homogenize the chapters into a single style throughout the book. We hope you will find the result illuminating and engaging.
Although teams of authors will retain their individual identity, there is a common format for the chapters. First, each chapter opens with an ‘Introduction’ or ‘What is X?’ section which briefly explains what the area is and why it is important. The fol- lowing section will be the heart of each chapter, where the key issues pertaining to the area are discussed. Next, the pedagogical implications of the area will be considered.
Of course, some chapters, such as Chapter 3, Vocabulary, may have more tangible pedagogical implications than others, such as Chapter 8, Psycholinguistics, but all will address pedagogical concerns. Each chapter has a ‘Further reading’ section, with a xii Preface number of reading suggestions, complete with brief annotations. Finally, each chapter has a ‘Hands-on activity’, where some data are presented for you to analyse and interpret. The authors present their suggestions in Chapter 18, Suggested solutions.
The areas of Applied Linguistics are related to each other in various ways. This means that certain ideas will inevitably appear in more than one chapter. We have built a certain amount of this repetition into the book, because we believe a good way to learn key ideas is to see them approached from slightly different perspectives by several authors. When an idea is discussed in another chapter, it will usually be cross-refer- enced, for example: (see Chapter 4, Discourse analysis, and Chapter 5, Pragmatics).
This book has been a team effort with 36 authors contributing their expertise. Writ- ing sophisticated ideas in an accessible way is no easy task, and we thank them for their efforts. We also wish to thank the team at Routledge publishers, in particular Elizabeth Cox. In addition we would like to thank The Gazette and its Editor-in-chief Neil Hodgkinson for granting permission to reprint the newspaper article used in the ‘Hands-on activity’ in Chapter 9.
We learned a lot about Applied Linguistics by editing this book. We hope you will be able to say the same thing after reading it. Norbert Schmitt University of Nottingham Michael Rodgers Carleton University January 2019 Chapter 1 An overview of applied linguistics Norbert Schmitt1 and Marianne Celce-Murcia2 What is applied linguistics? ‘Applied linguistics’ is using what we know about (a) language, (b) how it is learned and (c) how it is used, in order to achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world. Those purposes are many and varied, as is evident in a definition given by Wilkins (1999: 7): In a broad sense, applied linguistics is concerned with increasing understanding of the role of language in human affairs and thereby with providing the knowledge necessary for those who are responsible for taking language-related decisions whether the need for these arises in the classroom, the workplace, the law court, or the laboratory.