Applied Linguistics

Program Description:
The Program in Applied Linguistics provides students with a solid foundation for defining and resolving questions related to the nature of language, how it is used in educational and naturalistic contexts, and how it is taught, learned, and evaluated. The Program emphasizes study in the following:

• Acquisitional pragmatics

• Conversation analysis

• Cross-cultural pragmatics

• Discourse analysis

• Foreign language pedagogy

• Interlanguage analysis

• Language phonetics/phonology

• Language testing and assessment

• Second language acquisition

• Second language literacy

• Semantics

• Sociolinguistics

• Syntax

• Technology in applied linguistics