Publisher's Synopsis
Language education is the teaching and learning of a foreign or second language. It is a branch of applied linguistics. Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of linguistics that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. The text Language Education and Applied Linguistics covers those areas of applied language study that are most directly relevant to language teaching, testing, and teacher education. First chapter gives special emphasis to the influence of applied linguistics on English language and discusses the relation between linguistics and language teaching. Second chapter focuses on language politics as it is currently unfolding in Brazil. Third chapter presents some considerations into metaphor in language and thought. Fourth chapter focuses on comparative study of evidentiality in RAs in applied linguistics written by NS and Chinese writers. The aim of fifth chapter is to raise the writers' awareness in choosing reporting evidentials in RA writing. Inspired empirical study of Chinese EFL teaching has been presented in sixth chapter. Seventh chapter discusses the paradigmatic shift in applied linguistics, resulting in a claim that countless real-world language problems fall within its scope. Eighth chapter aims to survey and assess the current state of electronic historical corpora and corpus methodology, and attempts to look into possible future developments. Ninth chapter quantitatively expresses the degrees of processing difficulties caused by syntactically different reanalysis in Japanese sentences by questionnaire and self-paced reading experiments with non-syntactic factors strictly controlled. In tenth chapter, we propose a unified framework to incorporate prior knowledge into distributed word representation. Last chapter presents solutions to reduce the amount of linguistic text content while maintaining a sufficient level of linguistic richness required by a model or an application.
