I have been interested in the study of language since I was a very young kid, and this caused me to give up everything else just to focus on the study of language. Applied linguistics has specifically been my passion and blessing, and every now and then I prepare a bibliography of research on applied linguistics for people who are interested in…

Political theorists, generally non-experts in the language sciences, whose principal aim is often to advance normative theories on desirable states of affairs within liberal democratic states, tend to deal with language as a stable nominal category, as something that one "has" or "doesn't have", that can be labeled as one…

Rising enrollments of students for whom English is not a first language mean that every teacher -- whether teaching kindergarten or high school algebra -- is a language teacher. This book explains what teachers need to know about language in order to be more effective in the classroom, and it shows how teacher education might help them gain that…

Since 1980, the number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has increased by 140% (United States Census Bureau, 2010). Therefore a greater percentage of students now are multilingual. Throughout the world, multilingualism is considered the norm and monolingualism is the exception (Auer & Wei, 2008). In…

Critical directions in applied linguistics can be understood in various ways. The term "critical" as it has been used in "critical applied linguistics," "critical discourse analysis," "critical literacy" and so forth, is now embedded as part of applied linguistic work, adding an overt focus on questions of power and inequality to discourse…

In order to conduct a sociolinguistic analysis of language acquisition, data were collected on one bilingual child's speech through diary notes and tape recordings made at regular intervals from birth to age 5, with special attention given to contextual information related to each speech event. The child's languages include Spanish, English, and a…

INFORMATION ON 633 LANGUAGE RESEARCH PROJECTS IS CONTAINED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY, THE FOURTH OF A SERIES PUBLISHED BY LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (LRIP). PART I COMPRISES A THESAURUS AND CATEGORY LISTING. PART II IS AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF INVESTIGATORS AND INSTITUTIONS. PART III IS A NUMERICAL LISTING OF PROJECTS. A FURTHER LIST OF ONGOING…

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE SIXTH REPORT IN THE LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS (LRIP) SERIES, AND LISTS A WIDE VARIETY OF LANGUAGE-RELATED RESEARCH PROJECTS CURRENT BETWEEN AUGUST 1967 AND MARCH 1968. RESEARCH PROJECTS TERMINATED IN THE SIX MONTHS PREVIOUS TO PUBLICATION ARE INCLUDED AS WELL. APPROXIMATELY 280 PROJECTS ARE CROSS-INDEXED BY SUBJECT,…

THE FIFTH IN A SERIES OF LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN PROGRESS REPORTS, THIS ISSUE CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT ON-GOING DOCUMENTED LANGUAGE RESEARCH IN THE U.S. AND ABROAD BETWEEN JANUARY AND AUGUST, 1967. PROJECTS ARE CLASSIFIED IN THREE PARTS--(1) MAIN AND SUB-CATEGORIES OF SUBJECTS OF LANGUAGE RESEARCH, (2) AN ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF ALL RESEARCH…

Argues that the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language, or literacy, but social practices. Introduces a concept of language usage called "Discourse," incorporating words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, glances, body positions, and clothes. (FMW)

THIS FOUR-PART REPORT LISTS 438 LANGUAGE RESEARCH PROJECTS. PART I LISTS PROJECTS BY PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR, INSTITUTION, AND TITLE. PART II LISTS, ALPHABETICALLY, PERSONS WORKING ON ONE OR MORE OF THESE RECORDED PROJECTS. PART III LISTS MAIN SUBJECT CATEGORIES AND SUBCATEGORIES, BASED ON KEY WORDS SELECTED FROM THE REPORTS. PART IV IS AN…

A study of the acquisition of interrogative forms in children of high socioeconomic status reveals that utterances belong more to the colloquial than to the standard range. It is concluded that disadvantaged children would show similar usage, leading to the suggestion that teachers teach language as they use it. (Text is in French.) (CDSH/CLK)

The relationship between teachers' theories of language and learning and the nature of classroom discourse is explored. Data from two classes on Aborigine lifestyles suggest that there are three components functioning in all lessons: interpersonal, content, and metalanguage. The quality of the metalanguage component influences the overall quality…

Language planning involves decisions of two basic types: those pertaining to language choice and those pertaining to language development. Linguistic theory is needed to evaluate the structural suitability of candidate languages, since both official and national languages must have a high level of standardization as a cultural necessity. On the…

Linguistics is the study of language, as contrasted with knowledge of a specific language. Formal linguistics is the study of the structures and processes of language, or how it works and is organized. Different approaches to formal linguistics include traditional or prescriptive, structural, and generative or transformational perspectives. Formal…