Includes bibliographical references (p. [577]-724) and indexes

Introduction. Whence applied linguistics : the twentieth century / Robert B. Kaplan ; Applied linguistics : a twenty-first-century discipline / William Grabe ; Research approaches in applied linguistics / Patricia A. Duff -- The four skills : speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Speaking / Martin Bygate ; Listening : sources, skills, and strategies / Tony Lynch ; Reading in a second language / William Grabe ; Second language writing in English / Ilona Leki ; Integrating the four skills : current and historical perspectives / Eli Hinkel -- Discourse analysis. Discourse analysis and applied linguistics / Deborah Poole and Betty Samraj -- The study of second language learning. Perspectives from formal linguistics on second language acquisition / Alan Juffs ; Sociocultural theory and the pedagogical imperative / James P. Lantolf ; Language learner identities and sociocultural worlds / Kelleen Toohey and Bonny Norton ; Computational models of second language sentence processing / Michael Harrington ; Second language acquisition : a social psychological perspective / Robert C. Gardner ; Interactionist perspectives on second language acquisition / Susan Gass ; Pragmatics and second language acquisition / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig ; Applied linguistics and the neurobiology of language / John H. Schumann -- The study of second language teaching. Curriculum development in foreign language education : the interface between political and professional decisions / Péter Medgyes and Marianne Nikilov ; Content-based second language instruction / Marjorie Bingham Wesche ; Bilingual education / Colin Baker -- Variation in language use and language performance. Language transfer and cross linguistics studies : relativism, universalism and the native language / Terence Odlin ; Language uses in professional contexts / Mary McGroarty -- Bilingualism and the individual learner. Cognitive processing in bilinguals : from static to dynamic models / Kees de Bot ; The bilingual lexicon / Judith F. Kroll and Ton Dijkstra -- Multilingualism in society. Language contact / Peter Hans Nelde ; Pidgins and creoles / Jeff Siegel ; Language spread and its study in the twenty-first century / Ofelia Garcia ; Language shift and revitalization / Nancy H. Hornberger ; Ecology of languages / Peter Mühlhäusler -- Language policy and planning. Methodologies for policy and planning / Richard B. Baldauf, jr. ; Unplanned language planning / William G. Eggington ; Perspectives on language policy and planning / James W. Tollefson -- Translation and interpretation. Translation Sara Laviosa ; Interpreting / Nancy L. Schweda Nicholson -- Language assessment and program evaluation. Technology in standardized language assessments / Micheline Chalhoub-Deville -- Technological applications in applied linguistics. Progress and new directions in technology for automated essay evaluation / Jill Burstein and Martin Chodorow ; Computer-assisted language learning / Carol A. Chapelle ; Research in corpus linguistics / Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, and Eric Friginal -- Conclusion. Where to from here? / Robert B. Kaplan

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