Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction

1. Whence Applied Linguistics: The Twentieth Century / Robert B. Kaplan

2. Applied Linguistics: A Twenty-First-Century Discipline / William Grabe

3. Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics / Patricia A. Duff

Part II. The Four Skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading, and Writing

4. Speaking / Martin Bygate

5. Listening: Sources, Skills, and Strategies / Tony Lynch

6. Reading in a Second Language / William Grabe

7. Second Language Writing in English / Ilona Leki

8. Integrating the Four Skills: Current and Historical Perspectives / Eli Hinkel

Part III. Discourse Analysis

9. Discourse Analysis and Applied Linguistics / Deborah Poole and Betty Samraj

Part IV. The Study of Second Language Learning

10. Perspectives from Formal Linguistics on Second Language Acquisition / Alan Juffs

11. Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative / James P. Lantolf

12. Language Learner Identities and Sociocultural Worlds / Kelleen Toohey and Bonny Norton

13. Computational Models of Second Language Sentence Processing / Michael Harrington

14. Second Language Acquisition: A Social Psychological Perspective / Robert C. Gardner

15. Interactionist Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition / Susan Gass

16. Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig

17. Applied Linguistics and the Neurobiology of Language / John H. Schumann

Part V. The Study of Second Language Teaching

18. Curriculum Development in Foreign Language Education: The Interface between Political and Professional Decisions / Peter Medgyes and Marianne Nikolov

19. Content-Based Second Language Instruction / Marjorie Bingham Wesche

20. Bilingual Education / Colin Baker

Part VI. Variation in Language Use and Language Performance

21. Language Transfer and Cross-Linguistic Studies: Relativism, Universalism, and the Native Language / Terence Odlin

22. Language Uses in Professional Contexts / Mary McGroarty

Part VII. Bilingualism and the Individual Learner

23. Cognitive Processing in Bilinguals: From Static to Dynamic Models / Kees de Bot

24. The Bilingual Lexicon / Judith F. Kroll and Ton Dijkstra

Part VIII. Multilingualism in Society

25. Language Contact / Peter Hans Nelde

26. Pidgins and Creoles / Jeff Siegel

27. Language Speed and Its Study in the Twenty-First Century / Ofelia Garcia

28. Language Shift and Language Revitalization / Nancy H. Hornberger

29. Ecology of Languages / Peter Muhlhausler

Part IX. Language Policy and Planning

30. Methodologies for Policy and Planning / Richard B. Baldauf, Jr.

31. Unplanned Language Planning / William G. Eggington

32. Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning / James W. Tollefson

Part X. Translation and Interpretation

33. Translation / Sara Laviosa

34. Interpreting / Nancy L. Schweda Nicholson

Part XI. Language Assessment and Program Evaluation

35. Technology in Standardized Language Assessments / Micheline Chalhoub-Deville

Part XII. Technological Applications in Applied Linguistics

36. Progress and New Directions in Technology for Automated Essay Evaluation / Jill Burstein and Martin Chodorow

37. Computer-Assisted Language Learning / Carol A. Chapelle

38. Research in Corpus Linguistics / Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, and Eric Friginal

39. Where to from Here? / Robert B. Kaplan

"The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics contains thirty-nine articles on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics written by a diverse group of contributors. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive survey of the field, the many connections among its various sub-disciplines, and the likely directions of its future development. The book 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 the applications of their work. The volume systematically encompasses the major areas of applied linguistics and draws from a wide range of disciplines such as education, language policy, bi- and multilingualism, literacy, language and gender, psycholinguistics/cognition, language and computers, discourse analysis, language and concordances, ecology of language, pragmatics, translation, psycholinguistics and cognition, and many other fields. This second edition includes five new articles, and the remaining articles have been revised and updated to give a clear picture of the state of applied linguistics." (Publisher's Website)