The Concept and the Scopes of Applied linguistics from the EFL Perspectives at Qassim University

The study aims at summarizing the concept and scopes of Applied Linguistics as some EFL students may not precisely distinguish them when compared to several theoretical linguistics branches. Such a lack awareness influence their future trajectories in deciding area investigations major post-graduate since connection between Linguistics, general, is very close has been debatable issue for couple years even among professionals. Various heated discussion appeared workshops during which participants have focused on well its Linguistics. Accordingly, controversial debates stop easily due overlapping areas investigation limitation that current attempting identify. Effectively, interview questions were designed answered by two different groups who enrolled summer term academic year 1443 – 1444 officially known (433) Qassim University take linguistic courses normally taken graduate regular terms. Therefore, researcher argues teaching requires more practical examples enable be fully aware scope precise each field including Linguists. key factor students’ studies will based. Although all subjects course applied linguistics, responses show weaknesses identifying or exactly determining them,