Applied linguistics

“Jessica, would you please just sit still for a few minutes?” is something I heard often as a child. I was always on the move, whether I was running, dancing, or twirling around the house. My older brother, however, was the complete opposite; he never was too active. Brandon like to relax, read a book, and just hang out. No, he loved to read books. Most of the pictures from our childhood consist of Brandon sitting next to me, reading way, and me looking bored or trying to escape. Some people…

Translation is important for understanding works created within other cultures around the world. Often times, we rely on translators to create a bridge between our language and those we do not understand. It is their job to take writings from other places and convert them to the language in which we speak. Translators have the ability to take an original piece, with its content and structure, and reform it into a piece that more of the world will understand. In Willa and Edwin Muir's’…

After many years of living, intellectual nobody is fooled;we all know that there’s nothing that sets one response to be right. But everyone in the audience experiences an illusion of sentience emanating.In the past few decades, literary translation has had the main aim to serve as a cross-cultural bilingual communication vehicle amongst people.Due to the rising international trade,increased literary works,globalization,and expansion of technology.Consequently,a great age of literature is a…

Kaplan’s Traditional Contrastive Rhetoric Before 1960s, influenced strongly by structural linguistic and behavioral psychology, the teaching of English as a second/foreign language was mainly focused on spoken English, mostly “through pattern drills of the sentence structure and the sound system”. Writing was merely considered as a “secondary representation” of language, and was often overlooked by linguistics and language teachers. Urged by the professionalization of TESL, ESL writing…

should learn that language at an early age. The language that they learn will be taught as the first language that is called as a mother tongue, and as the second language that is called as the target language. These kinds of language are also being applied in learning English. For example, when the learners from Indonesia want to learn English as their target language, they should have learned Bahasa Indonesia as their first language in order to help them understand the English as their target…

basis of ‘simple induction’ and the like, but do not,” further allowing him to come to the conclusion that children must have an innate knowledge of language and its structure. The poverty of stimulus argument primarily takes a nativist approach to linguistic theory, as it implies that children have some innate biological way of not making high probability and logical mistakes. Crain (2012) also illustrates this point by stating the poverty-of-the-stimulus argument proves “that children know…

a restaurant, to conducting a meeting in the office, or even talking with a friend. Language is an essential part of human society and everything it involves. It is assumed that linguistics involves learning lots of different languages, however, it is actually focused on the workings of language. The study of linguistics involves answering the following questions: • Why is it that we have different languages? • What is the best way to learn/teach a language • Why do languages change over time?…

this lack of rigor might originate from the interdisciplinary nature of the concept and phenomenon of discrimination in that discussions concerned with discrimination often fall within areas as diverse as critical discourse analysis, critical applied linguistics, power relations, and identity (re)construction. Therefore, such discussions might not be directly related to education. Further, as each of these areas enjoys its own principles and tenets, it seems essential to borrow findings of…

investigate how Langston Hughes expressed this mood through literary stylistics in The Weary Blues. Since linguistic criticism is used in text analysis; it concentrates on the connections between language choices and the social world (Malmkjaer 1), I am using the linguistic theory as the criticism to argue the weariness in this poem. According to the major fields of the theoretical linguistics are syntax, phonology, morphology, and semantics (Wikipedia), I have found that Langston Hughes has…

Create-a-Research-Space (CARS) model, ESP genre is defined as move and step as an analytical tool to examine textual sequence for two levels of the analysis: microstructure (lexico-grammatical features) and macrostructure (rhetorical structures). ESP genre has been applied increasingly in US higher education (Johns, 2002). This approach is related to discourse communication and has been designed in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) language teaching and learning (Swales, 1990). Then, ESP…