Revue Maghrébine des Langues
Volume 2, Numéro 1, Pages 195-202
2003-12-31

English Language Teaching And Sociolinguistics

Authors : Bouamrane Ali .

Abstract

It might seem antiquated to talk in 2003 about the relationship between English Language Teaching (ELT) and Sociolinguistics when the latter has been informing the former for the last thirty years or so, at least since 1967 with Hymes‟ article “Why linguistics needs the sociologist” not to go back to Firth (1957), who first proposed a sociological linguistics in the thirties. This paper is therefore aimed at North African teachers of English who may not be aware of the very existence of sociolinguistics, and its application to teaching.

Keywords

English Language - Teaching - Sociolinguistics