1.   If applied linguistics is left exclusively to an elite band of researchers, then the whole object of the exercise disappears.

2.   Edinburgh was the first university outside the United States to develop a post-experience course in applied linguistics.

3.   Since then, there has been a steady output of research within this branch of applied linguistics.

4.   At CUNY he taught pidgins and creoles, phonetics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics and forensic linguistics.