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Applied linguistics is generally perceived as an interdisciplinary field of research for the study of all aspects of language use. Being a non-language-specific field, it primarily deals with mother, foreign and second language acquisition but also examines the relationship between language and such areas as the media, law, or communication. It draws on such well-established disciplines as linguistics, social and educational psychology, sociology, anthropology, and education. However, “applied linguistics in this sense must be practised by teachers too if it is to have an effective operational relevance at all” (Widdowson 1991: 6). In contrast to (pure) linguistics, it is driven by real-world problems rather than theoretical explorations.