Has anyone here ever known anyone who was studying applied linguistics? What did they think of the program? Also, do you think it would be a good thing to mix with something else through a duel major? That way, I could help them to transfer their language through a process to finally being able to "think in English."įor me, learning about similarities and differences among languages was very helpful in my teaching. For example, some of the phonetic sounds, pronunciation, word order etc. When I taught ESL, I tried to learn something about the various languages of my students. One important fact about language learning is that when babies are born, they can utter all the sounds needed to learn any language they hear. There are a number of good books on linguistics that I found very interesting and informative. I have taken quite a few classes in applied linguistics in preparation for teaching adult ESL classes. She was very proud of the success that her students had in improving their speech. For her ESL students, she devised methods for teaching punctuation, rhythm and intonation to help them sound more like native speakers - that's what they wanted, to minimize their foreign accent. She took her native English speakers back in their language and pronunciation development to the point where their pronunciation and language rhythm skills were acceptable and then worked forward. She told me that she used some of the concepts about language that she learned from applied linguistic classes. She also works with English as a Second Language students. She serves students who haven't been served well in speech improvement in elementary school. A friend of mine is a speech therapist in a high school.
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