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2013-2014 Academic Catalog 
    
2013-2014 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

Department of Applied Linguistics


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Department of Applied Linguistics
School of Humanities and Social Sciences


Professor:
El S. Badawi
Associate Professors: Reem Bassiouney, Raghda El Essawi, Marilyn Plumlee, Robert Williams (Chair), Zeinab Taha
Assistant Professors: Lori Fredricks, Atta Gebril
Professors Emeriti: Yehia El-Ezabi, Fred Perry, Paul Stevens

Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of inquiry that addresses a broad range of language-related issues in order to improve the lives of individuals and conditions in society. It draws on a wide range of theoretical, methodological, and educational approaches from various disciplines–from the humanities to the social, cognitive, medical, and natural sciences–as it develops its own knowledge-base about language, its users and uses, and their underlying social and material conditions. The Department of Applied Linguistics at AUC has as its primary focus the application of linguistic knowledge to language pedagogy, particularly the Teaching of Arabic as a Foreign Language and the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages.

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