Explorations in Applied Linguistics

Explorations in Applied Linguistics

H. G. Widdowson 1979

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book is a selection of papers that I have written over the past eight years for presentation at courses and seminars in various parts of the world. I am prompted to bring them together in one volume because the reactions they have provoked suggest that they touch on issues of interest to many people concerned
with applied linguistics and language teaching pedagogy and although most of the papers have appeared in print before they have done so in publications which are not always very easily accessible. So they are presented here in the hope that they will stimulate wider interest and debate. Obviously I must believe that the papers have some merit and make some contribution to applied linguistic studies: otherwise I would not have had them put into print in the first place: I do not want to try to disarm the reader with the customary coy apology for publishing them.
What I do want to do in this introduction is to give some idea about the scope and purpose of these papers so the reader will know in advance what to expect and what attitude I would like him to adopt. Actually the title of the book is intended to reflect both scope and purpose, ‘applied linguistics’ referring to the first and ‘explorations’ to the second; but a gloss is needed to make this clear.