Spilt into two volumes, this new edition includes 27 new chapters and covers a wide range of topics, Volume 1 is organised into two sections: Language Learning and Education and Key Areas and Approaches in Applied Linguistics and Volume 2 also two sections: Applied Linguistics in Society and Broadening Horizons.

Li Wei is Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education, at University College London, UK, where he also holds the Chair in Applied Linguistics. He is the Editor of International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Applied Linguistics Review. He is Fellow of the British Academy, Academia Europaea, Academy of Social Sciences (UK), and Royal Society of Arts (UK).)

Zhu Hua is Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication and Director of International Centre for Intercultural Studies at the Institute of Education, University College London (UCL). She is an elected Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK and elected Fellow and Board member of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She is Chair of British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), 2021-2024.

James Simpson is Associate Professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Language Education at the School of Education, University of Leeds, where he led the Language Education Academic Group.

Volume 1

Introduction: Applied linguistics in the contemporary world -- Li Wei, Zhu Hua and James Simpson

PART I Language learning and language education

1. Conceptualising language education: theories and practice -- Diane Larsen-Freeman
2. Second and additional language acquisition across the lifespan-- Lourdes Ortega
3. Language teaching and methodology -- Scott Thornbury
4. Technology and language learning -- Richard Kern
5. Teacher communities of practice -- Simon Borg
6. Curriculum and materials: decolonisation and inclusivity - John Gray
7. Content-language-integrated learning and English medium instruction -- Heath Rose and Jim McKinley
8. Bilingual and Multilingual education -- Ingrid Gogolin
9. English for academic purposes -- Nigel Harwood and Bojana Petri¿
10. Language testing -- Barry O'Sullivan
11. Language awareness - Xuesong (Andy) Gao
12. Classroom discourse -- Amy B. M. Tsui
13. Language and culture -- Claire Kramsch
14. Language socialisation -- Agnes Weiyun He

PART II Key areas and approaches in applied linguistics

1. Grammar -- Michael Swan
2. Lexis -- Joe Barcroft and Gretchen Sunderman
3. Applied phonetics and phonology -- Helen Fraser
4. Literacy -- Doris S. Warriner
5. Genre analysis - John Flowerdew
6. Stylistics -- Elena Semino
7. Discourse analysis -- Guy Cook
8. Corpus linguistics -- Phoebe Lin and Svenja Adolphs
9. Cognitive linguistics - Bodo Winter and Florent Perek
10. Systemic functional linguistics - Lise Fontaine and Anne McCabe
11. Generative grammar -- Shigenori Wakabayashi
12. Psycholinguistics and second language acquisition -- John Field
13. Neurolinguistics in language learning and teaching -- John W. Schwieter and Stefano Rastelli
14. Psychology of language learning: personality, emotion and motivation -- Jean-Marc Dewaele
15. Sociocultural approaches to language development -- Steven L. Thorne and Thomas Tasker
16. Sociolinguistics for language education - Petros Karatsareas

Index

Volume 2

Introduction: Applied linguistics in the contemporary world -- Li Wei, Zhu Hua and James Simpson

PART I Applied linguistics in society

1. Multilingualism -- Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter
2. Language and migration -- Mike Baynham and James Simpson
3. Language policy and planning -- Lionel Wee
4. Family language policy - Kendall A. King
5. Critical discourse analysis, critical discourse studies, and critical applied linguistics - Karin Zotzmann and John P. O'Regan
6. Digital language and communication - Caroline Tagg
7. Intercultural communication - Zhu Hua
8. Institutional discourse -Zsófia Demjén and Miguel Perez-Milans
9. Medical communication -- Sarah Collins, Sarah Peters and Ian Watt
10. English for professional communication: A critical genre analytical perspective -- Vijay K. Bhatia and Aditi Bhatia
11. Identity -- Bonny Norton and Monica Shank Lauwo
12. Gender and Sexuality - Helen Sauntson
13. Language and race - Jennifer B. Delfino and H. Samy Alim
14. Politics and applied linguistics - Philip Seargeant
15. World Englishes and English as a lingua franca -- Andy Kirkpatrick and David Deterding

PART II Broadening Horizons

1. Sign languages -- Bencie Woll and Rachel Sutton-Spence
2. Lexicography -- Thierry Fontenelle
3. Translation and interpreting -- Mona Baker and Luis Pérez-González
4. First language attrition: bridging sociolinguistic narratives and psycholinguistic models of attrition - Beatriz Duarte Wirth, Anita Auer and Merel Keijzer
5. Clinical linguistics - Vesna Stojanovik, Michael Perkins and Sara Howard
6. Language and ageing - Lihe Huang
7. Forensic linguistics - Tim Grant and Tahmineh Tayebi
8. Linguistic ethnography -- Karin Tusting
9. Posthumanism and applied linguistics - Kelleen Toohey
10. Social semiotics and multimodality -- Theo van Leeuwen
11. Linguistic landscapes - Robert Blackwood and Will Amos
12. Minoritsed/indigenous language revitalization - Nancy Hornberger and Haley De Korne
13. Endangered languages - Julia Sallabank and Peter K. Austin
14. Ecolinguistics in practice -- Stephen Cowley
15. Translanguaging -- Li Wei

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