Directions in Applied Linguistics : Essays in Honor of Robert B. Kaplan

Contents: I. Perspectives on applied linguistics: Introduction/Paul Bruthiaux. 1. Applied linguistics, interdisciplinarity, and disparate realities/Henry G. Widdowson. 2. Is language policy applied linguistics?/Bernard Spolsky. II. Language education: Introduction/Vaidehi Ramanathan. 3. Sharing community languages: Utopian dream or realistic vision?/Micheal Clyne. 4. Documenting curricular reform innovative foreign language education in elementary school/Rocio Dominguez, G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato.  5. Research perspectives on non-native English speaking educators/Lia D. Kamhi Stein. III. English for academic purposes: Introduction/Dwight Atkinson. 6. Reflections of a blue collar linguist: analysis of written discourse, classroom research, and EAP pedagogy/Dana R. Ferris. 7. English for academic purposes : Issues in undergraduate writing and reading/Ann M. Johns. 8. Ear learners and error in US college writing/Joy Reid. 9. Teacher's perceptions of lexical anomalies: a pilot study/Chetyl Boyd Zimmerman. IV. Contrastive discourse analysis: Introduction/William Grabe. 10. Tertium comparationis: a vital component in contrastive rhetoric research/Ulla M. Connor and Ana I. Moreno. 11. Structure and style in the narrative writings of Mexican American and African-American adolescents/Ann Daubnery Davis and Genevieve Patthey-Chavez. 12. Functions of personal examples and narratives in L1 and L2 academic pose/Eli Hinkel. 13. Cross cultural variation in classroom turn taking practices/Deborah Poole. V. Language planning: Introduction/William G Eggington. 14. Micro language planning/Richard B. Baldauf fr. 15. The Englishization of Spanish in Mexico/Robert J. Baumgandner. 16. Including discourse in language planning theory/Joseph Lo Bianco. 17. World language foreign language policy in Hungary/Peter Medgyes. References. Index.