International Network for Educational Linguistics as aDiscip

[Mohamed Maamouri]

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I think that there must be room for other aspects of applied linguistics such as sociolinguistic or psycholinguistic issues or issues of language policy and planning.



Ronald Kephart wrote:
>>Would you be interested in joining an International Network for >>Educational Linguistics as a Discipline (INFELAD)?
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>I think I might, but I have a question. Do people see Educational >Linguistics as primarily about language teaching/learning, or is >there room for other issues?
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>I have in mind especially the lack of science-based knowledge about >language that I see, every semester, in the students in my intro to >linguistics class. They've spent 12 years in things like "language >arts," but all they know is whether to write its or it's, or that >"double negatives make a positive," or that AAVE is "just slang." In >other words, most of what they know is either about the writing >system or simply fantasy. Is this a forum to tackle issues like this?
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>Ronald Kephart
>Associate Professor
>English and Foreign Languages
>University of North Florida
>Jacksonville, FL USA
>http://www.unf.edu/~rkephart/
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