Mapping Applied Linguistics: A Guide for Students and Practitioners

✍ Scribed by Christopher J. Hall, Patrick H. Smith, Rachel Wicaksono

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 445
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mapping Applied Linguistics: A guide for students and practitioners, second edition, provides a newly updated, wide-ranging introduction to the full scope of applied linguistics. This innovative book maps the diverse and constantly expanding range of theories, methods and issues faced by students and practitioners around the world, integrating both sociocultural and cognitive perspectives. Practically oriented and ideally suited to students new to the discipline, Mapping Applied Linguistics provides in-depth coverage of:

multilingualism, language variation and Global Englishes
literacy, language teaching and bilingual education
discourse analysis
language policy and planning
lexicography and translation
language pathology and forensic linguistics

The new second edition features contemporary examples of global applied linguistics research and practice, and includes updated further reading and new fieldwork suggestions for each chapter. The companion website at cw.routledge.com/textbooks/hall provides a wealth of additional learning material, including activities, flashcards and links to the latest online resources.

Mapping Applied Linguistics is essential reading for students studying applied linguistics, TESOL, general linguistics and language and literacy education at the advanced undergraduate or master’s degree level. It also provides a gateway for practitioners and specialists seeking to better understand the wider scope of their work.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Why mapping?
How is the book organized?
Who are the authors?
Who is this book for?
How can this book be used?
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
1.1 Why do we use different languages?
1.2 Ten ways we're led astray in language and applied linguistics
1.3 Applied linguistics
1.4 Bottom-up applied linguistics
Activities
Further reading
A LANGUAGE IN EVERYDAY USE
2 Language variation
2.1 Language variation and social judgement
2.2 Kinds of variation
2.3 Standardization and 'unstandardized' varieties
2.4 Non-native varieties and Global Englishes
2.5 Linguistic insecurity and language loss
2.6 Context and language practices
2.7 Casting ahead
Activities
Further reading
3 Key populations
3.1 Issues in the naming of populations
3.2 Issues in the categorizing of populations
3.3 Populations characterized by the language(s) used
3.4 Populations characterized by issues of access to language
3.5 Populations characterized by the social role of language
3.6 Populations characterized by their professional or academic interest in language
3.7 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
4 Discourse analysis
4.1 The pervasive relevance of discourse (analysis)
4.2 Linguistic approaches to discourse analysis
4.3 Social approaches to discourse analysis
4.4 Themes in contemporary discourse analysis
4.5 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
5 Language policy and planning
5.1 Language decisions
5.2 Corpus, status and acquisition planning
5.3 Keeping languages alive
5.4 Planning for access to services
5.5 Language policy and planning in globalizing times
5.6 Linguistic landscape
5.7 Language planning as conflict resolution
5.8 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
B LANGUAGE, LEARNING AND EDUCATION
6 Literacy
6.1 The expanding scope of literacy
6.2 Writing systems and culture
6.3 Literacy and individuals
6.4 Child and adult literacies
6.5 Academic achievement and the measurement ofliteracy
6.6 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
7 Language and education
7.1 The language of home, community and school
7.2 Language as a medium in school
7.3 Language as an object in school
7.4 Educating linguistic minorities and learners with special needs
7.5 Language, testing and assessment
7.6 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
8 Bilingual and multilingual education
8.1 Definitions and purposes
8.2 Language-based frames
8.3 Content-based frames
8.4 Context-based frames
8.5 Integrating the frameworks
8.6 Characteristics of effective programmes
8.7 Modality, mobility and mixing
8.8 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
9 Additional language education
9.1 Contexts of additional language education
9.2 The problem of method
9.3 Individual learner differences
9.4 Assessing additional languages
9.5 Economic, cultural and political aspects of additional language education
9.6 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
C LANGUAGE AND SPECIALIZED USES
10 Translation
10.1 Contexts of translation
10.2 Translatability and translation equivalence
10.3 The translation process
10.4 What do translators need to know?
10.5 Types of translation
10.6 Interpreting and audiovisual translation
10.7 Technology in translation
10.8 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
11 Lexicography
11.1 Words in the mind and in society
11.2 Authority or record?
11.3 Uses and types of dictionaries
11.4 Dictionary compilation
11.5 Dictionaries as tools for learning
11.6 Technological developments
11.7 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
12 Forensic linguistics
12.1 Language as legal medium and matter
12.2 The language of the law
12.3 Language and criminal investigation
12.4 Language as the subject matter of law
12.5 Discourse and different languages in the courtroom
12.6 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
13 Language pathology
13.1 Biological and social foundations of language
13.2 Types of language pathology
13.3 Assessment
13.4 Treatment
13.5 Roles for applied linguists
Activities
Further reading
14 Conclusion: prospects and perspectives
14.1 The impact of new technologies
14.2 The dissolution of borders
14.3 The exercise of the profession
14.4 Key predictions
14.5 Final thoughts
Activities
Glossary
References
General index
Index of languages
Index of places

✦ Subjects

Applied Linguistics, Language and Education, Linguistics