Handbook of Applied Linguistics

Alan Davies is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Principles of Language Testing (1990), An Introduction to Applied Linguistics (1999), and The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality (2003). Catherine Elder is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the author, with Alan Davies et al., of the Dictionary of Language Testing (1999) and co-editor of Experimenting with Uncertainty (2001).

“Handsomely produced, and very attractive visually. The editors, Alan Davies and Catherine Elder, are leading experts in applied linguistics and they have assembled a strong group of contributors to the enterprise… The Handbook of Applied Linguistics should be in every academic library, and I would recommend that applied linguists look at it, note specific chapters of interest, and read over those chapters carefully… Because of the depth allowed for each chapter, there is much thought-provoking material and many ideas that may challenge as well as support established positions.” Language Teaching Research“In the vast quarry of theories and interdisciplinary investigations of applied linguistics this rigorous and scholarly book is an authoritative guide to the focal issues. It provides both original and important contributions to the literature as well as signposts to the future.” John C. Maher, International Christian University, Tokyo “In its forty years of activity, applied linguistics has been concerned to define itself, its extent, and its relations with related fields. This handbook, edited by Davies and Catherine Elder, brings the issues up-to-date, providing not just a clear account of current work in the branches of the field by thirty of the best-known practitioners, but a cogent perspective justifying treating applied linguistics as an independent and united discipline.” Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University “This is a linguistically sophisticated, pedagogically sound, research oriented, interdisciplinary approach at defining applied linguistics as a discipline in its own right that should be in every applied linguist's library. A vade mecum.” James E. Alatis, Georgetown University “Davies and Elder are to be congratulated for the Handbook in Applied Linguistics. The handbook reflects the historical evolution of thinking in applied linguistics, its emerging dimensions, and successfully captures the nature of an internal critique of applied linguistics within applied linguistics. Because applied linguistics is firmly embedded within western applied linguistics, the handbook book forces us to reflect on the nature non-western applied linguistics might take.” Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University

• List of Figures viiiList of Tables ixNotes on Contributors xAcknowledgments xviGeneral IntroductionApplied Linguistics: Subject to Discipline? 1Alan Davies and Catherine ElderPart I Linguistics-Applied (L-A) 17Introduction to Part I 19Alan DaviesSection 11 Language Descriptions 25Anthony J. Liddicoat and Timothy J. Curnow2 Lexicography 54Alan KirknessSection 23 Second Language Acquisition and Ultimate Attainment 82David Birdsong4 Language Corpora 106Michael Stubbs5 Discourse Analysis 133Hugh Trappes-LomaxSection 36 British Sign Language 165Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll7 Assessing Language Attitudes: Speaker Evaluation Studies 187Howard Giles and Andrew C. Billings8 Language Attrition 210Monika S. Schmid and Kees de Bot9 Language, Thought, and Culture 235Claire Kramsch10 Conversation Analysis 262Rod GardnerSection 411 Language and the Law 285John Gibbons12 Language and Gender 304Susan Ehrlich13 Stylistics 328John McRae and Urszula ClarkSection 514 Language and Politics 347John E. Joseph15 World Englishes 367Kingsley BoltonSection 616 The Philosophy of Applied Linguistics 397Kanavillil RajagopalanPart II Applied-Linguistics (A-L) 421Introduction to Part II 423Catherine ElderSection 717 The Native Speaker in Applied Linguistics 431Alan Davies18 Language Minorities 451John Edwards19 Research Methods for Applied Linguistics: Scope, Characteristics, and Standards 476James Dean BrownSection 820 Second Language Learning 501William Littlewood21 Individual Differences in Second Language Learning 525Rod Ellis22 Social Influences on Language Learning 552Gary Barkhuizen23 Literacy Studies 576Eddie WilliamsSection 924 Fashions in Language Teaching Methodology 604Bob Adamson25 Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) 623Paul Gruba26 Language Teacher Education 649Richard Johnstone27 The Practice of LSP 672Helen Basturkmen and Catherine Elder28 Bilingual Education 695Heather LotheringtonSection 1029 Language Maintenance 719Anne Pauwels30 Language Planning as Applied Linguistics 738Joseph Lo Bianco31 Language Testing 763Tim McNamaraSection 1132 Critical Applied Linguistics 784Alastair PennycookIndex 808