what's applied linguistics it is an inter an trans disciplinary approach identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real life problems. for applied linguistics, the central question is: - how far can existing models of description in linguistics be used to resolve the practical problems of language use we are concerned … This paper tests the relative difficulty for Arab speakers in their acquisition of aspects of English derivational morphology. This testing depends on previous work by the author through identifying major similarities and differences between written Standard Arabic and written Standard English through contrastive analysis. Applied Linguistics investigates language in use. The aim is NOT to contribute to descriptions of language, but to solve practical problems. It identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real life problems. It is aninterantransdisciplinary approach. of Applied Linguistics (9th, Greece, April, 1990). INTRODUCTION. So far, educators and researchers have not. given grave attention to learners' errors and how to correct them in the language class- Corder (1967: 167) noted in 'The significance of learner's errors' that "A This is why Corder (1981) expresses the learners' system can be described linguistically and the researcher can discover the learners' transitional competence, and this system can be accessed through the learners' errors. Applied linguists, such as Corder (1967), Selinker (1972), etc. recognized the fact that L2 learners because the field came into being during the ascendancy of the structuralist linguistics movement, of skinnerian psychology, and of the audiolingual method—a combination that gave rise to the notion that linguistic and psychological theory could easily be translated into practice—early applied linguistics was dominantly associated with language … textbooks in Applied Linguistics, viii + 162 pp. UK£19.99. ISBN (EU) 0 7486 1552 0 (paperback). Simultaneously published by Georgetown analysis to the works of Corder, Selinker, and Dulay and Burt, taken as the cognitive and the social' (p. 188; also p. 45) and even 'merge. acquisition. 414 Review article. Theories of second language Pit Corder (1967 - in "The significance of learners' errors") was one of the pioneers of this new approach, which can be defined as a type of linguistic analysis that focuses on the errors learners make, in comparing the errors made in the target language and the constructions of that target language, (cf. Khansir 2012: 1029). Whenever knowledge about language is used to solve a basic language-related problem, one may say that applied linguistics is being practiced. AL is a technology which makes abstract ideas and research findings accessible and relevant to the real world; it mediates between theory and practice. (Strevens, 1992, p. 76) (Ibid.) 12/28/2013 5 International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature. E-ISSN: 2200-3452 & P-ISSN: 2200-3592 ijalel.aiac.org.au. ARTICLE INFO. Conflicts of interest: None Funding: None Article history Received: December 07, 2017 Accepted: January 19, 2018 Published: March 01, 2018 Volume: 7 Issue: 2 Advance access: February 2018