At the risk of appearing somewhat self-serving, I will invite you to look at my own collection of readings entitled “Linguistics at Work: A Reader of Applications.”  This book is a supplementary textbook.  It doesn’t discuss linguistic theory, but it has over forty readings of individuals applying various subdisciplines of linguistics to a variety of tasks.  For example, some deal with linguists or people using linguistic principles and knowledge in court cases, product-naming, software, speech therapy, dictionary making, advertising, language policy and planning, language pedagogy, writing instruction, reading instruction, literary analysis, translation, etc.  The book was originally marketed by Harcourt Brace, but is now published by Heinle & Heinle (A division of Thomson Learning).  It’s worth a look.  The book originally appeared as a peer-reviewed textbook in 1997, but with the change in publishers and the passage of time, it is now handled, unfortunately, through the custom publishing division of Heinle & Heinle. 

 

Dallin D. Oaks

 

 

 

 

In addition to the other books that have been discussed, I’d mention  Linguistics for Teachers, ed. by Cleary and Linn (readings by different authors; you might find a couple of them useful to put on reserve) and potentially Rosina Lippi-Green’s English with an Accent. The latter is not an introduction to applied linguistics in any sense, but rather a highly-readable treatment of dialect discrimination in the U.S. It’s more of an “awareness raiser” than a textbook, but (in my experience) students respond very well to it. – Bill Spruiell

 

 

I have just been assigned (much to my delight) to teach the senior level Applied Linguistics course for the Dept. of Education.  This is a required course for most Ed majors on our campus.  Groups like Phys Ed majors are excluded, but the majority of the students will certainly NOT be prospective English teachers--they will be a very small minority.

What textbook(s) would best be suited for this particular audience?  Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

Thanks,
John
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