What is applied linguistics, according to the governing board of

What is applied linguistics, according to the governing board of AILA?
【正确答案】：The governing board of AILA (International Association of Applied Linguistics) describes applied linguistics as “an interdisciplinary field of research and practice dealing with practical problems of language and communication that can be identified, analyzed or solved by applying available theories, methods and results of linguistics or by developing new theoretical and methodological frameworks in linguistics to work on these problems”