Andrew D. Cohen
Second Language Studies
University of Minnesota
adcohen@umn.edu
www.tc.umn.edu/~adcohen/
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 Academics and practitioners engaged in:
• linguistics,
• L2 acquisition,
• language pedagogy,
• language assessment,
• communication studies,
• forensic linguistics,
• lexicography,
• stylistics,
• translation/interpretation,
• language use in the health and human services,
• the uses and misuses of language in society.
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 In
search of applied linguistics: an
ongoing process of definition and redefinition.
 It encompasses those fields addressed in
presentations at the annual conference of
the American Association for Applied
Linguistics (held each Spring) and at the
of the International Association of
Applied Linguistics (AILA) World
Congress every three years (next in
Beijing, 23-28 August 2011).
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 Their
input directly or indirectly leads to
tips for L2 teachers and learners, is
incorporated into pedagogical guides for
L2 teaching, L2 textbook materials, and
websites.
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 Currently
15 federally-funded Language
Resource Centers across the U.S. have
served to demonstrate the myriad of ways
in which applied linguists can be of
service to the L2 teaching profession.
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 The
LRC’s are a major conduit for:
• summer institute courses for language
teachers, administrators, researchers, and
language learners,
• action projects for creating teaching
materials in printed form and on websites,
• research on aspects of language teaching
and learning,
• innovative language assessment efforts,
• conferences on key topics in applied
linguistics.
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 Depends
on whom you ask and whom you
hear from.
 Prof. Kramsch will have her list!
 Here are just a few that I hear about:
• The role of sociocultural theory in language
development
• Corpus linguistics in materials development
• L2 pragmatics in teacher development and in the
classroom
• Dynamic assessment in the classroom
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 English
departments,
 schools of education,
 programs in second language studies or
ESL,
 translation/interpretation programs,
 language and literature departments.
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 University
of Hawai’i
 Northern Arizona, Flagstaff
 University of Arizona, Tuscon
 Georgia State
 University of Wisconsin, Madison
 University of Maryland
 Penn State
 San Francisco State
 Where else?
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 Professorial
positions and university staff
(language center positions, administrative
positions, etc.)
 Language teaching
 Language teacher development
 Curricular development
 Language assessment/test development
 Translation
 Research efforts (in the government, in the
schools, at university centers, etc.)
 Government work (including military efforts
– e.g., in interrogation and espionage)
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