...APPLIED LINGUISTICS...

1. Applied Linguistics is concerned with the systematic study of language structure, the acquisition of first and subsequent languages, the role of language in communication, and the status of language as the product of particular cultures and other social groups. (http://www.brocku.ca/humanities/departments-and-centres/applied-linguistics/about/what-is-applied-linguistics).

2. "[A]pplied linguistics is an area of work that deals with language use in professional settings, translation, speech pathology, literacy, and language education; and it is not merely the application of linguistic knowledge to such settings but is a semiautonomous and interdisciplinary . . . domain of work that draws on but is not dependent on areas such as sociology, education, anthropology, cultural studies, and psychology." (http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/appliedlinguisticsterm.htm).

3. One way I can answer this broad question is by considering the Applied Linguistic issues that currently interest me, namely how languages interact and what differences we might expect when the languages concerned are not related to each other. For example, the Hong Kong language policy seeks to develop people who are trilingual in Cantonese, Putonghua and English. 

(http://www.cambridge.org/servlet/file/store7/item5633198/version1/Article_What%20is%20applied%20linguistics.pdf)

4. For me applied linguistics is related to metacognition and the reflexion process which all human beings have to cross in the way we learn a new language, I mean, it is related to acquisition and formal process in SLA and FLA. Applied linguistics recognize all the areas of English and it try to deep in those in order to find the origin or the correct process and complexity in acquiring a second language.

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