Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book provides a wide-ranging overview of the many and diverse issues in applied linguistics today. Leading specialists consider the relation of their own areas of enquiry both to professional practice and to the discipline as a whole. The volume includes state-of-the-art papers on theory and research in language learning and teaching second language acquisition spoken and written discourse International English communicative competence and grammar genre and rhetoric communication across cultures corpus linguistics literature and literature teaching classroom practices

Together, they emphasize the reciprocal relationship of principle and practice, and the interdisciplinary nature of applied linguistics.

The editors, contributors, and publishers are privileged to dedicate this volume to H.G. Widdowson in recognition of the invaluable contribution he has made to so many aspects of the profession." (Book Cover)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements

1 An applied linguist in principle and practice / Guy Cook and Barbara Seidlhofer

2 Teacher professionalism and research / Christopher Brumfit

3 The applied linguist and the foreign language teacher: can they talk to each other? / Claire Kramsch

4 Concept and conduct in language pedagogy / N.S. Prabhu

5 Appraising second language acquisition theory in relation to language pedagogy / Rod Ellis

6 Analysability, accessibility, and ability for use / Peter Skehan

7 Situational context, variation, and second language acquisition theory / Elaine Tarone and Guo-Qiang Liu

8 Three functions of output in second language learning / Merrill Swain

9 Proficiency or the native speaker: what are we trying to achieve in ELT? / Alan Davies

10 Grammar and lexis in communicative competence / Neikki Nyyssönen

11 Cultural meaning and rhetorical styles: toward a framework for Contrastive Rhetoric / Yamuna Kachru

12 The paralinguistics of reference: representation in reported discourse / George Yule

13 Grammar in discourse: attitude and deniability / Rob Batstone

14 Field-guides in strange tongues: a workshop for Henry Widdowson / John M. Swales

15 Explorations in applied linguistics 3: forensic stylistics / Malcolm Coulthard

16 Corpus evidence for norms of lexical collocation / Michael Stubbs

17 Corpora in language pedagogy: matching theory and practice / Guy Aston

18 Transcultural creativity in world Englishes and literary canons / Braj B. Kachru

19 An approach to the teaching and learning of poetry in Nigeria / Joseph O. Bisong

20 Discourse and creativity: bridging the gap between language and literature / Ronald Carter and Michael McCarthy

21 The impact of the Army Specialized Training Program: a reconsideration / Bernard Spolsky

22 'Reading with a suspicious eye': Critical Reading in the foreign language classroom / Catherine Wallace

23 What is this class about? Topic formulation in an L1 reading comprehension classroom / Luiz Paulo da Moita Lopez

24 Discourse analysis and the teaching of listening / Marianne Celce-Murcia

Notes on the contributors

Bibliography

Index