How can applied linguistics help a teacher become a better professional?

 Sandra Liliana Ramos Aristizabal

Teaching a language is a big responsibility. We as teachers should have the required knowledge to provide our students with the necessary tools that enable them to communicate their ideas and express their opinions. 

According to some authors, teachers should have language knowledge useful in their role as educators to be able to help their students with any problem they could confront when learning a language. Applied linguistic can also be useful to analyze students´ progress in their learning process and to identify appropriate learning and teaching points. 

 Being a teacher is not only to give students knowledge about a specific issue. When teaching  language educators need to be prepared to answer any question from learners,  so we must be aware of applied linguistics. That is, to know about some fields such as syntax, semantics, morphology, phonetics  and how they operate in the learning of a new language. Teachers will not explain  concepts about the fields of linguistics to their beginner  students, but if they are able to help overcoming the learners´ difficulties taking into account those aspects of applied linguistics, the results will be better than those expected.

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