APPLIED LINGUISTICS

The concept of Applied Linguistics includes its auxiliary sciences such as Phycholological, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics and Ethnography (Anthropological knowledge), the application of these auxiliary sciences gives meaning to the Applied Linguistics.

The most important use is to solve problems about language use, language learning, language teaching and treatment of practical problems.

Every auxiliary science has its specific application:

Those cases where we want to know about human behaviour and the human mind, how mind funtions and why we do things in the way we do them; Psichology must be applied in these cases.

Psycholinguistics is applied in mental processes when a person produces, learns and understands a language, how the psychological factors affect the use of language.

Sociolinguistics studies the language but relationed with social factors such as social class, level of education, age, sex, multilingual communities and lenguage attitude.

When is comparade the life and culture of different societies or ethnic groups, how language is used or learnt in natural environments, Ethnography is the auxiliary science to apply.