The History of Applied Linguistics By Diogo32 1957 The beginning of Applied Linguistics The foundation of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan in 1941 and of the School of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 1957 are generally seen as the beginning of the field of applied linguistics. 1973 The Edinburg Course in Applied Linguistics 1979 Transformational Grammar 1979 Applied Linguistics is not Linguistics Applied 1992 What's Applied Linguistics? 2006 Applied Linguistics (in)disciplinar