Between Linguistics, Language Education and Acquisition Research. Introduction to the Special Issue Linguistics for Language Teaching and Learning

• Published in: Crossroads (Białystok, Poland) no. 1 (24); pp. 5 - 11
• Main Authors: Awramiuk, Elżbieta, Karczewski, Daniel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku 2019; Faculty of Philology at the University of Bialystok; Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok
• Subjects: Applied Linguistics; Education; Foreign languages learning; Language acquisition; Language studies; linguistics; language teaching; language learning; language education; language acquisition; research
• ISSN: 2300-6250; 2300-6250
• DOI: 10.15290/CR.2019.24.1.01

The relationship between linguistics and education is strong and has a long tradition. This connection is not merely about a transmission of linguistic knowledge to the context of school education – what really matters is a deep insight into the goals and methods of language teaching and learning. While in foreign language teaching practical issues are beyond disagreement, they have been debated for many years as regards first language teaching and learning. A telling example of this controversy is an international debate over the role of grammar in L1 teaching (Hudson 2004; Locke 2010; Spolsky Hult 2010; Macken-Horarik et al. 2011; Ribas, Fontich Guasch 2015).