An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory

Alan Davies

ISBN 10: 0748633553 / ISBN 13: 9780748633555

Editore: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

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2007. 2nd. Paperback. Language and language problems affect all of us and are an integral part of our social experience. In this foundational textbook, Professor Davies takes this simple fact as his starting point and sets out to show that applied linguistics is better understood by doing it than studying it or reading about it. Series: Edinburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 340. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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• Titolo: An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory
• Editore: Edinburgh University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748633553
• ISBN 13: 9780748633555
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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.

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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.

Alan Davies is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.