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The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains forty original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the current state of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and the likely directions of its future development. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics addresses a broad audience: applied linguists; educators and other scholars working in language acquisition, language learning, language planning, teaching, and testing; and linguists concerned with applications of their work. Early applied linguistics was predominantly associated with language-teaching. While this relationship continues, the field has long since diversified, becoming increasingly inter-related and multi-disciplinary. The volume addresses the diversity of questions facing applied linguists today: What is the place of applied linguistics in the architecture of the university? Where does applied linguistics fit into the sociology of knowledge? What are the questions that applied linguistics ought to be addressing? What are the dominant paradigms guiding research in the field? What kinds of problems can be solved through the mediation of applied linguistics? What aspects of linguistics can be empirically applied to language-based problems, and what spaces resist such application? What will new students of applied linguistics need to know in the coming years? Systematically encompassing the major areas of applied linguistics-and drawing from a wide range of disciplines such as education, language policy, bi- and multi-lingualism, literacy, language and gender, psycholinguistics/cognition, language and computers, discourse analysis, language and concordinances, ecology of language, pragmatics, translation, psycholinguistics and cognition, and many other fields-the editors and contributors to The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics provide a panoramic and comprehensive look at this complex and vigorous field. This second edition includes three new chapters, and the remaining chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated to give a clear picture of the current state of applied linguistics.

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Among recent handbooks covering various branches of linguistics, this is one of the least satisfactory. Kaplan (emer., Univ. of Southern California) is himself unable to offer a clear definition of "applied linguistics," other than referring to its application in "real-world" situations. The main concept that emerges is that applied linguistics is concerned with language learning, especially with second-language learning. Many of the contributors come from that field, but their contributions rarely match their qualifications: the essays are mostly superficial, poorly written, and packed with jargon. One exception is Colin Baker's brilliantly argued discussion of bilingual education, a compelling essay that is a major contribution to its field--sociolinguistics. The main difficulty with the book is that it is premature; the editor refers to future important questions that should have been answered before he compiled the book: What is the status of applied linguistics as an independent discipline? What are the means of training for future linguists in the field? What should a good curriculum consist of? The result is an early attempt to be comprehensive in a field that has yet to define itself precisely. Graduate students, researchers, professionals. J. B. Beston formerly, Nazareth College of Rochester

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Robert B. Kaplan is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern California.