Preface
SECTION I
Survey
1 Applied linguistics
The need for applied linguistics
Examples and procedures
The scope of applied linguistics
Linguistics and applied linguistics: a difficult relatiohip
2 Prescribing and describing: popular and academic views of
''correctness''
Children''s language at home and school
Description veus prescription
An applied linguistics pepective
3 Languages in the contemporary world
Language and languages
Attitudes to languages
The languages of natio: boundaries and relatiohips
The growth of English
English and Englishes
Native speake
English as a Lingua Franca ELF
4 English Language Teaching ELT
Grammar-tralation language teaching
The direct method
''Natural'' language learning
The communicative approach
5 Language and communication
Knowing a language
Linguistic competence
Communicative competence
The influence of communicative competence
6 Context and culture
Systematizing context: discoue analysis Culture
Tralation, culture, and context
Own language: rights and undetanding
Teaching culture
7 Peuasion and poetics; rhetoric and resistance
Literary stylistics
Language and peuasion
Critical Discoue Analysis CDA
8 Past, present, and future directio
Early orientation
Subsequent changes
Second-Language Acquisition SLA
Corpus linguistics
Being applied
Critical Applied Linguistics CALx
''Post-modern'' applied linguistics
A harder future: mediation
SECTION 2
Readings
SECTION 3
References
SECTION 4
Glossary