Applied linguistics

By Edgar Mena

  • Origin of the term

    Origin of the term
    The term owes its origin to US language-teaching programmes during and after the Second World War, largely based on Leonard Bloomfield's Outline Guide for the Practical Study of Foreign Languages (1942)

  • Language Learning: A Quarterly Journal of Applied Linguistics

    Language Learning: A Quarterly Journal of Applied Linguistics
    In 1948, Language Learning: A Quarterly Journal of Applied Linguistics was started at the U. of Michigan by Charles C. Fries, supported among others by Kenneth L. Pike and W. Freeman Twaddell, to disseminate information about work at Fries's English Language Institute

  • School of Applied Linguistics

    School of Applied Linguistics
    In Britain, a School of Applied Linguistics was established by J. C. Catford at the U. of Edinburgh in 1956, and the Center for Applied Linguistics was set up in Washington, DC, under Charles Ferguson in 1959.

  • Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)

    Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
    CAL was established in 1959 by a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Modern Language Association to serve as a liaison between the academic world of linguistics and the practical world of language education and languagerelated concerns.

  • AILA

    AILA
    National associations of applied linguists came together in 1964 to form the Association internationale de la linguistique appliquée (AILA), which holds a four-yearly international congress with published proceedings.