You can change the world by changing your words. Remember death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen
Applied linguistics has different concepts related to the art of constructing a language and the ways people can use it to different purposes. It focuses on several ideas that have concerns about how individuals give and receive information in a structured system.
Applied linguistics makes us think about how we teach a language and how practical and functional a language is in terms of an effective and efficient communication. According to this, applied linguistics helps us to adjust and provide elements to study the language in several aspects such us: grammar, syntax, morphology, etymology, semantics phonetics, understanding, functions and practicality.
That is why we as professionals of language teaching first think about the value of our work and how we are directly influenced by good understanding of the language in order to teach it correctly. Professional education language teaching cannot work isolated from the realities students have. I believe language teachers must develop processes taking into account students’ needs, context, how language is connected to background, emotional and cognitive characteristics, activities, contents, assessment. There is an evident need to improve the conditions we give to them to acquire and learn. A practical input will be the difference between meaningful or meaningless learning.
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