An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory (Eidenburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics) - Softcover

Davies, Alan

 
9780748633555: An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to Theory (Eidenburgh Textbooks in Applied Linguistics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0748633553 ISBN 13: 9780748633555
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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Verlag
Edinburgh University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0748633553
ISBN 13 
9780748633555
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
199
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