Applied Linguistics: Free Online Course from Swayam

Language is an essential part of all that we do. It defines us as humans. This course deals with the applications of theoretical tools in understanding languages and out come of the analyses of theoretical tools. We aim to have delivered the applications of the fundamental ideas of language to the fields such as language teaching and learning, cognitive science, education, and language disorder and disabilities. INTENDED AUDIENCE:BA, MA, B El Ed, B.Ed. PhD, Machine Translations, Artificial Intelligence, and Cognitive SciencePRE-REQUISITES : Nil

Syllabus

1: Applied Linguistics 2: Introduction to Language 3: Structure of Language 4: Language and Society 5: Multilingualism and Language Learning 6: First Language Acquisitio 7: Second Language Acquisitio 8: Language and Cognitio 9: Disabilities 10: Cohesion and Coherence 11: Behaviorism and Language Teaching 12: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 13: A Critique of Behaviorism 14: Languages of home and school 15: Critical Period Hypothesis 16: Direct Method 17: Audio-lingual Method 18: Communicative Method 19: Computer Assisted Language Teaching 20: Method and Post Method 21: Language Learning and Errors 22: Contrastive Analysis 23: Perspective on Interlanguage 24: Materials 25: Audio-visual aids 26: Assessme 27: Cloze Procedure 28: Language and Educatio 29: Multilingualism, Language Teaching, and Cognitive Growth 30: Social Psychological Aspects of Language Learning 31: Aspects of Vocabulary 32: Language Policy and Language Teaching 33: Linguistics and its Applications 34: Application in Development of Social Theory 35: Evolution of Language (Linguistic Theory in Applied Linguistics) 36: Linguistic Competence Vs. Communicative, Social, and Discourse Competence 37: Language in and of Politics 38: Questions of Identity and Powe

Applied Linguistics