Linguistics, usefulness, and liberal arts education
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The claims of linguistics in the larger curriculum have generally centered on the usefulness of the study of languag and have usually focused on the pragmatic aspects of linguistics, i.e., applied linguistics. Under applied linguistics, we can group any attempt which brings the theories of the nature or function of language to bear on the solution of real problems. Although such an eminent theorist as Chomsky maintained that linguistics has nothing to say to language teachers, many fields have been drawn to meld the theory of linguistics with the technology of the field, whatever it might be, e.g., foreign language teaching, the teaching of composition to native speakers, special education (including remedial reading), bilingual education, language and culture of the deaf, speech therapy, and psychotherapy. Applied linguistics thus is not essentially different from a large stream of American education which holds that the reason for acquiring knowledge is to seek out its application in a technology.
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