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Which academic discipline is concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world?
What is the study and treatment of speech and communication impairments called?
In which type of education is the study of a child’s home language or languages involved?
Which type of education involves the study of the majority or official language of a student’s society, which is not the student’s main or home language?
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What is the deployment of linguistic evidence in criminal and other legal investigations called?
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What is the academic discipline concerned with language as a biologically endowed cognitive faculty?
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Which type of education involves the study of the language of another country, which is not the official language in the student's own country?
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What is the study and treatment of speech and communication impairments called?
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In which type of education is the study of, and in, a child’s home language or languages involved?
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What involves the arrangement and presentation of written language including issues relating to typography and layout?
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____ linguistics: The deployment of linguistic evidence in criminal and other legal investigations, e.g. to establish the authorship of a document, or a profile of a speaker from a tape-recording.
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The study of the forms of language with reference to their social function in communication is called ______ linguistics.
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____ language education involves the study of the language of another country which is not necessary or official language in the student’s own country.
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____ linguistics is a programme of linguistics, initiated and developed by Noam Chomsky from late 1950s onward, investigating language as biologically endowed cognitive faculty.
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___-language education is the study of, or education in, the majority or official language of a student’s society, which is not the student’s main or home language.
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Study Notes
Applied Linguistics
- Concerned with the relation of knowledge about language to decision making in the real world.
Speech and Language Pathology
- Study and treatment of speech and communication impairments.
Home Language Education
- Study of a child’s home language or languages involved.
- Study of, and in, a child’s home language or languages.
Second Language Education
- Study of the majority or official language of a student’s society, which is not the student’s main or home language.
Forensic Linguistics
- Deployment of linguistic evidence in criminal and other legal investigations.
- Establish the authorship of a document, or a profile of a speaker from a tape-recording.
Chomskyan Linguistics
- Programme of linguistics, initiated and developed by Noam Chomsky from the late 1950s onward.
- Investigating language as a biologically endowed cognitive faculty.
Foreign Language Education
- Study of the language of another country, which is not the official language in the student's own country.
Functional Linguistics
- Study of the forms of language with reference to their social function in communication.
Information Design
- Arrangement and presentation of written language, including issues relating to typography and layout.
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Explore the academic disciplines of applied linguistics, clinical linguistics, first-language education, and second language education in this informative quiz.
