Paul Bruthiaux & Dwight Atkinson 
Directions in Applied Linguistics [PDF ebook] 
Essays in Honor of Robert B. Kaplan

Part 1: Perspectives on Applied Linguistics

Introduction – Paul Bruthiaux

1. Applied Linguistics, Interdisciplinarity, and Disparate Realities – Henry G. Widdowson

2. Is Language Policy Applied Linguistics? – Bernard Spolsky

Part 2: Language Education

Introduction – Vaidehi Ramanathan

3. Sharing Community Languages: Utopian Dream or Realistic Vision? – Michael Clyne

4. Documenting Curricular Reform: Innovative Foreign Language Education in Elementary School - Rocío Domínguez, G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato

5. Research Perspectives on Non-native English-speaking Educators - Lía D. Kamhi-Stein

Part 3: English for Academic Purposes

Introduction – Dwight Atkinson

6. Reflections of a ‘Blue Collar Linguist:’ Analysis of Written Discourse, Classroom Research, and EAP Pedagogy - Dana R. Ferris

7. English for Academic Purposes: Issues in Undergraduate Writing and Reading - Ann M. Johns

8. ‘Ear’ Learners and Error in US College Writing - Joy Reid

9. Teachers’ Perceptions of Lexical Anomalies: A Pilot Study - Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman

Part 4: Contrastive Discourse Analysis

Introduction – William Grabe

10. Tertium Comparationis: A Vital Component in Contrastive Rhetoric Research - Ulla M. Connor and Ana I. Moreno

11. Structure and Style in the Narrative Writings of Mexican-American and African-American Adolescents - Ann Daubney-Davis and Genevieve Patthey-Chavez

12. Functions of Personal Examples and Narratives in L1 and L2 Academic Prose - Eli Hinkel

13. Cross-cultural Variation in Classroom Turn-taking Practices - Deborah Poole

Part 5: Language Policy and Planning

Introduction – William G. Eggington

14. Micro Language Planning - Richard B. Baldauf Jr

15. The Englishization of Spanish in Mexico - Robert J. Baumgardner

16. Including Discourse in Language Planning Theory - Joseph Lo Bianco

17. World-Language: Foreign Language Policy in Hungary - Péter Medgyes

References

Robert B. Kaplan: Biography and Publications

Index

Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor of Applied Sociolinguistics at University of California, Davis, USA. Her previous publications include Language Policies and (Dis)Citizenship: Rights, Access, Pedagogies (Multilingual Matters, 2013) and Bodies and Language: Health, Ailments, Disabilities (Multilingual Matters, 2009).