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NAME: Daniel Steven Hernández Rodríguez COURSE: Applied Linguistics Cita GROUP: 1N

TEACHER: David

Applied Linguistics: A Twenty-First-Century Discipline by William Grabe In this article, Grabe makes a brief review of the Applied Linguistics concept from its beginnings and the way it has gradually changed to the current state of the discipline. This is divided by phases, being the first one during the 1950’s during the surge of the concept, it covered only some areas of research such second language teaching and the concerns related to arts and literacy in first language. The second phase that was developed during the 1960’s had a more global scope and added practical issues like language assessment, language policies and the learning of a second language Later in the 1970’s, the focus of the discipline were the problems presented in real contexts rather than theoretical ones. Applied linguistics lacked a predetermined research method as it was developed in a dynamic, flexible and changing way. It took help from linguistic fields to draw conclusions, the linguistic sciences employed were: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse. By 1990’s and 2000’s Applied Linguistics started to have some specific trends in research specified by author like this: 1. A fluctuation from language teaching to language awareness, dialogic studies about the effectiveness of the learning and teaching processes. 2. Applied Linguistics started to be included in critical studies. 3. The use of language in specific contexts, its objectives are to understand the effects of idiomatic expressions that weren’t understood outside the environment in which were used. 4. The focus on multilingual and bilingual societies, cultures, emigrants and their learning and teaching problems. 5. The assessment in the classrooms, the achievement of goals by the usage of activities during specific periods. Now it is criticized the lack of a specific disciplinary work, this has caused that professionals in the field to work without a standardized and organized training. This lack of boundaries in the Applied Linguistics has also caused the interdisciplinary exchange to be mandatory towards giving global and more extended conclusions.

To conclude this interdisciplinary trend in Applied Linguistics will be continued as to keep on being relevant it will need to be in touch with the latest developments in the codification of data that the technological and globalized world has to offer.