Paul Bruthiaux, Dwight Atkinson, William G. Eggington, William Grabe and Vaidehi Ramanathan conducted their doctoral research at the University of Southern California in the 1980s and 1990s, with Robert B. Kaplan playing a significant role in their development as applied linguists. Now they have joined forces to co-edit a collection of essays and research papers that review current trends across the spectrum of applied linguistics and discuss their implications for the future the field.

Few applied linguists are as deserving of a book in their honor as Bob Kaplan and few have been as richly served by the resulting volume. The twenty or so contributions, many written by leading figures in the field, cover the areas for which Kaplan’s work is best known—language education, EAP, contrastive rhetoric, and language planning. What shines through is how rich and vibrant a field applied linguistics has become in recent years. What also shines through is Bob Kaplan’s role as a scholar, an educator, an editor and, perhaps most significantly, as a mentor of doctoral students and younger colleagues. So we additionally find in this volume, affectionate and appreciative accounts of Bob Kaplan’s influence on the scholarly development of important applied linguists of a generation after his.

• Part 1: Perspectives on Applied LinguisticsIntroduction - Paul Bruthiaux1. Applied Linguistics, Interdisciplinarity, and Disparate Realities - Henry G. Widdowson2. Is Language Policy Applied Linguistics? - Bernard SpolskyPart 2: Language EducationIntroduction - Vaidehi Ramanathan3. Sharing Community Languages: Utopian Dream or Realistic Vision? - Michael Clyne4. Documenting Curricular Reform: Innovative Foreign Language Education in Elementary School - Rocío Domínguez, G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato5. Research Perspectives on Non-native English-speaking Educators - Lía D. Kamhi-SteinPart 3: English for Academic PurposesIntroduction - Dwight Atkinson6. Reflections of a ‘Blue Collar Linguist:’ Analysis of Written Discourse, Classroom Research, and EAP Pedagogy - Dana R. Ferris7. English for Academic Purposes: Issues in Undergraduate Writing and Reading - Ann M. Johns8. 'Ear' Learners and Error in US College Writing - Joy Reid9. Teachers’ Perceptions of Lexical Anomalies: A Pilot Study - Cheryl Boyd ZimmermanPart 4: Contrastive Discourse AnalysisIntroduction - William Grabe10. Tertium Comparationis: A Vital Component in Contrastive Rhetoric Research - Ulla M. Connor and Ana I. Moreno11. Structure and Style in the Narrative Writings of Mexican-American and African-American Adolescents - Ann Daubney-Davis and Genevieve Patthey-Chavez12. Functions of Personal Examples and Narratives in L1 and L2 Academic Prose - Eli Hinkel13. Cross-cultural Variation in Classroom Turn-taking Practices - Deborah PoolePart 5: Language Policy and PlanningIntroduction - William G. Eggington14. Micro Language Planning - Richard B. Baldauf Jr15. The Englishization of Spanish in Mexico - Robert J. Baumgardner16. Including Discourse in Language Planning Theory - Joseph Lo Bianco17. World-Language: Foreign Language Policy in Hungary - Péter MedgyesReferencesRobert B. Kaplan: Biography and PublicationsIndex