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The History and Development of Educational Linguistics Educational linguistics is an area of study that integrates the research tools of linguistics and other related disciplines of the social sciences in order to investigate holistically the broad range of issues related to language and education ( Hornberger, 2001 ; Spolsky, 1978 ). As an area of inquiry, educational linguistics is young. Its naissance occurred in the early 1970s with the work of Bernard Spolsky. The history of educational linguistics is inextricably linked to applied linguistics, with which it continues to have a symbiotic relationship. At the same time, educational linguistics has developed a unique niche in its directed focus on language and education. This chapter recounts the emergence of this niche and the development of the nature and scope of educational linguistics. Applied linguistics as an articulated field of study is itself only about 60 years old, although Phillipson traces the concept to the work of nineteenth-century scholars such as Rasmus Rask and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ( Phillipson, 1992 : 175). Markee (1990 , citing Howatt, 1984 ) and Phillipson (1992 : 175) report that the term has been used since 1948 in the journal title Language Learning: A Quarterly Journal of Applied Linguistics . About ten years later the term is used in Britain for the first time as “a label for serious intellectual and academic activity” in naming the School of ... log in or subscribe to read full text. Blackwell Reference Online ® is a Blackwell Publishing Inc. registered trademark Technology partner: Semantico Ltd.