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Welcome to the Applied Linguistics Task Force! This task force is a place for Wikipedia editors to collaborate on all articles related to applied linguistics. That includes articles on bilingualism and multilingualism, first and second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language education, and more. We have a lot of ways in which you can help, so please have a look down the page, and get stuck in.

Getting started

If you want to help, here are some things that you can do right now:

Register your name on the list of participants.
Watchlist and monitor the general WikiProject talk page if you haven't done so already.
Watchlist and monitor the log of assessment changes.
Watchlist the new linguistics articles page if you haven't done so already. This helps for identifying and reviewing new applied linguistics articles.
Add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics/Outreach/User ALTF}} to your user page. It will automatically add you to Category:Applied Linguistics Task Force participants.
Have a look at our todo list and see if there's anything you would like to help out with.

Scope

All articles related to applied linguistics, including:

As for translation and language interpretation, please visit the specific WikiProject Translation Studies.

Article assessments

Applied linguistics pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	2
FL	1
GA	15
B	131
C	440
Start	1,140
Stub	502
List	57
Category	314
Disambig	7
File	2
Project	1
Redirect	117
Template	18
Assessed	2,747
Total	2,747
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 10,895	Ω = 4.89

Participants

If you're interested in helping, please add your name and a brief description of your interests below.

Mr. Stradivarius (talk · contribs) - I'm mostly interested in second-language acquisition and language education, and I also help out with the technical side of this WikiProject.
Drew.ward (talk · contribs) - aspect, tense, mood, functional grammar, holistic analyses, language education.
OrenBochman (talk · contribs) - Natural Language Programming. Stylometrics.
Robert Rogge (talk · contribs) - Translation technology, processes, methods, multi-lingual industries.
Fadesga (talk · contribs) - Translation studies, translation technology, language services marketing.
Asoundd (talk · contribs) - Computational linguistics, natural language processing. Interested in the science of linguistics and how it can represent large NLP data sets through aggregate statistics.
Suzusan (talk · contribs) - Translation, translation studies, literature, Asian languages.
K. Landvermesser (talk · contribs) - Primarily sociolinguistics.
Leondz (talk · contribs) - NLP: social media, time in language, space in language, machine learning.
Yichen Li (talk · contribs) - First and second-language acquisition, language education, literacy, multilinguism
SirCattus (talk · contribs) - A lover of linguistics with a focus on cognitive linguistics. Interested in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, construction grammar, and particular linguistic features in general. ;) Avid conlanger.
Sunflowerqueen (talk · contribs) - first and second language acquisition, language conservation, sociolinguistics, and language politics
Vexthesmol (talk · contribs) - I'm interested in communication and storytelling and how that changes through mediums/languages.
Bangjapra (talk · contribs) - First and second language acquisition, Psycholinguistic, pragmatics, sociolinguistic, language education, literacy, multilinguism.
beardown25 (talk · contribs) - I’m interested in understanding cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and overall language acquisition.
ElsiePelsie (talk · contribs) - Second language acquisition, language education, language planning and language teacher education
Calfux22 (talk · contribs) - language education, sociolinguistics, language teacher education
‪Jon Fernquest 2022 (talk · contribs) - I'm interested in language education, translation and NLP topics such as BERT Transformers with a special interest in vocabulary acquisition, academic vocabulary, flashcards and polysemy (languages: English, Burmese, Sanskrit)
‪Psyling (talk · contribs) - text perception, sentiment analysis.
NoahConstrictor (talk · contribs) - I'm a new editor currently working on expanding and improving dictogloss.
Lingprof22 (talk · contribs) - I'm new and interested in using a WikiEdu assignment in my fall course
Frzzl (talk · contribs) - language planning/policy of Europe. Primary interest is interlinguistics, so you can find me most active at WP Constructed languages!
Hamid Hassani (talk · contribs) — Researcher and corpus linguist. PhD in Persian Language and Literature from Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran.
Avigari (talk · contribs) - new editor, interested in sociolinguistics, translation, language change, and phonetics!

Todo items

Tag the talk pages of all articles in the project's scope with {{WikiProject Linguistics|applied=yes}}.
- Identify the most important articles to the project, and tag them - see #Tagging and assessment below.
Find editors who have shown interest in applied linguistics and ask them if they would like to join.
Identify articles for creation.
Identify articles for improvement.
Review importance and quality of all existing articles - see #Tagging and assessment below.

Articles for creation

Learning strategies - to go with communication strategies
Sign linguistics - this should be split from/coordinated with Sign language

Articles for improvement

Applied linguistics - our main article, but is only C-class
Second-language acquisition - to get to Good Article status
Language education - work needed to split long sections and make it more comprehensive
Error (linguistics) - needs to be expanded
Error treatment (linguistics) - needs to be expanded
Asian EFL Journal - needs expansion

Image requests

Find images for all the people in List of language acquisition researchers (5 of 47 done)

Guidelines

Tagging and assessment

Any articles that are within the scope of this project need to be tagged with {{WikiProject Linguistics|applied=yes}}. There are many reasons for tagging, the most important for us being that it gives other editors an easy way to keep track of the hundreds of applied linguistics articles that exist on Wikipedia. You should add the tags to the talk page of each individual article.

We also use the talk-page tags to give articles ratings for quality and for importance. This helps editors to identify the articles that most need improving, and is also used for the Wikipedia 1.0 project. For details of how to give ratings and what the different criteria are, please see the main project assessment page.

Templates

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Linguistics.

Userbox template

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics/Outreach/User ALTF}}

Stub templates

{{linguistics-stub}}
{{linguist-stub}}

Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Applied Linguistics Task Force articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured lists

List of municipalities of Finland in which Finnish is not the sole official language

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

Featured pictures

Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret

In the News articles

Main page featured articles

Main page featured lists

List of municipalities of Finland in which Finnish is not the sole official language

Picture of the day pictures

Italiaanse schrijver Umberto Eco, portret

Resources

Task force watchlist

External watchlist of all task force articles

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