The birth of applied linguistics as a scientific discipline should be located in the United States in the late 1940s: in 1946 he organized a course at the University of Michigan (United States) with this title and in 1948 began publishing the first magazine on the subject. Its origin is linked to the teaching of second languages, as it sought to collect the experience of numerous specialists who were forced to develop fast and effective methods of teaching foreign languages for the U.S. military during World War II. Discipline was a boom during the 50s, in parallel in the United States and Europe (especially in Britain and later in France) and gradually extended their fields of interest.
The area in which maybe applied linguistics has undergone further evolution is the teaching and learning of second languages. This evolution has included several stages, which have run parallel to the advances that were occurring in linguistics and psychology, and couples have been proposed methods and approaches. Thus, for example, the emergence of structuralism, which identifies patterns and linguistic structures of each language-features and behavioral psychology underlie Audiolingual method, which is based on mechanistic repetition linguistic structures. The development of contrastive linguistics has had to reflect the development of contrastive analysis. Later, the expansion of the interests of linguistics to the use of language and communication aspects led to the proposal of communicative approaches and tasks approach.
I suggest the folllowing Readings
- Christal, D. (1981). Directions in Applied Linguistics. Londres: Academic Press.
- Kaplan, R. (2001). Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics. Nueva York: Oxford Univesity Press.
- Pennycoo
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