Applied Linguistics and English Language Teaching:
Applied linguistics is important for the English language
teaching and the relationship between English language
teaching and applied linguistics is not only interesting but
decisive. English language is taught as a second or
foreign language around the world to school children and
learner’s adults. English language has a special place in
the educational system of foreign countries and no doubt,
learning and teaching English requires English teacher
should be master the English language skills, from this
point of view, a knowledge of applied linguistics is
essential for English language teaching in general and
English teacher, in particular. Because, the most major
important role of applied linguistics in language is that
has been concerned with solving or at least ameliorating
social problems involving language. In other words, “in
the modern educational setting, the English teacher is
supposed to know linguistics or applied English
linguistics in order to prove himself as an effective
English language teacher ” [29]. Throughout the history
of english language teaching there has always been an
honorable picture of applied linguistics, as it is used to
the study of English second and foreign language
teaching and learning. The formats of the English
language curriculums, english language materials,
English courses, are influenced by applied linguistics.
The cooperation between english language teachings
with applied linguistics gives students a good
opportunity to easy access the following areas of
subjects are used in the field of applied linguistics:
phonology, phonetics, syntax, semantics, morphology,
discourse and text, contrastive and error analysis, etc.
In addition, the most linguistic researches are used in
English language are influenced by applied linguistics