Perspectives in applied linguistics
A North American view
This overview focuses on the work of Applied Linguistics in North America with an emphasis on publications in the past 6 years. Follow a brief interpretive section on the nature and status of Applied Linguistics, the article reviews a number of major areas of research in Applied Linguistics. These areas include second language acquisition (and its various sub-domains), L2 reading and writing research, language learning and teaching, language and culture, corpus linguistics, critical perspectives, language assessment, language policy and planning, language uses in professional contexts, and technology in Applied Linguistics. The overview closes with comments on seven possible areas for growth in Applied Linguistics in addition to the mainstream fields noted above.
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Baldauf, Richard B. & Robert B. Kaplan
2010.
Australian Applied Linguistics in relation to international trends.
Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 33:1
► pp. 4.1 ff.
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Kaplan, Robert B.
2009.
An introduction to applied linguistics: from practice to theory, by Alan Davies.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 30:2
► pp. 167 ff.
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Fischer, Robert
2007.
How do we Know what Students are Actually Doing? Monitoring Students' Behavior in CALL†.
Computer Assisted Language Learning 20:5
► pp. 409 ff.
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