PART ONE: BACKGROUND 1 what is applied linguistics? a brief history definition and scope the role of aplied linguistics theoretical bases the nature of applied linguistics applied linguistics and the language teacher disussion quesions PART TWO: GENERAL THEORIES 3 Human learning the nature of human learning philosophical bases of learning theories major learnign theories 4 first language acquisition first language acquisition,a complex task for the child some questions which theories of l1 acquitition must answer major l1 acquisition theories discussion questions 5 second language learning some basic distinctions concerning l2 learning the nature of second language ldarning …… PART THERR: PART FOUR: Peferences lndex