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Language Learning and the Applied Linguistics: A Historical Sketch
Author(s) -
Catford J. C.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
language learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.882
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1467-9922
pISSN - 0023-8333
DOI - 10.1111/0023-8333.00054
Subject(s) - sketch , linguistics , applied linguistics , perspective (graphical) , history of linguistics , language acquisition , corpus linguistics , historical linguistics , psychology , history , philosophy , computer science , artificial intelligence , algorithm
This article reviews the history of applied linguistics together with the history of the journal Language Learning, indicating the journal's particular place in that larger history and honoring its 50th anniversary. I adopt a chronological perspective, starting from antiquity but focusing on developments in Europe and North America in the later 19th and 20th centuries. I offer evidence that from the late 1940s onward Language Learning played a distinctive role in the popularization and widespread adoption of the term applied linguistics as well as the systematic, theoretical, and research orientation associated with it.