xi, 431 pages : 24 cm

This volume provides a wide-ranging overview of the diverse issues in applied linguistics today. The contributors consider the relation of their own areas of enquiry both to professional practice and to the discipline as a whole

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-418) and index

An applied linguist in principle and practice / Guy Cook and Barbara Seidlhofer -- Teacher professionalism and research / Christopher Brumfit -- The applied linguist and the foreign language teacher: can they talk to each other? / Claire Kramsch -- Concept and conduct in language pedagogy / N.S. Prabhu -- Appraising second language acquisition theory in relation to language pedagogy / Rod Ellis -- Analysability, accessibility, and ability for use / Peter Skehan -- Situational context, variation, and second language acquisition theory / Elaine Tarone and Guo-Qiang Liu -- Three functions of output in second language learning / Merrill Swain -- Proficiency or the native speaker: what are we trying to achieve in ELT? / Alan Davies -- Grammar and lexis in communicative competence / Heikki Nyyssonen -- Cultural meaning and rhetorical styles: toward a framework for contrastive rhetoric / Yamuna Kachru -- The paralinguistics of reference: representation in reported discourse / George Yule -- Grammar in discourse: attitude and deniability / Rob Batstone -- Field-guides in strange tongues: a workshop for Henry Widdowson / John M. Swales -- Explorations in applied linguistics 3: forensic stylistics / Malcolm Coulthard -- Corpus evidence for norms of lexical collocation / Michael Stubbs -- Corpora in language pedagogy: matching theory and practice / Guy Aston -- Transcultural creativity in world Englishes and literary canons / Braj B. Kachru -- An approach to the teaching and learning of poetry in Nigeria / Joseph O. Bisong -- Discourse and creativity: bridging the gap between language and literature / Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy -- The impact of the army specialized training program: a reconsideration / Bernard Spolsky -- 'Reading with a suspicious eye': critical reading in a foreign language classroom / Catherine Wallace -- What is this class about? Topic formulation in an L1 reading comprehension classroom / Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopes -- Discourse analysis and the teaching of listening / Marianne Celce-Murcia

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