Presents a comprehensive survey of the ways in which linguistics is being used by researchers in a range of interdisciplinary areas. This title also presents fresh research in the 'traditional' areas of applied linguistics, including multilingualism, language education, teacher-learner relationships, and assessment.

Volume 1: Language Teaching and Learning; Introduction: language learning and teaching (editors); 1. Politics, Policies and Political Action in Foreign Language Education, Mike Byram (University of Durham, UK); 2. Identity in applied linguistics: the need for conceptual exploration, David Block (Institute of Education, UK). 3. Language user groups and language teaching, Vivian Cook (Newcastle University, UK); 4. Language Learning as Discursive Practice, Joan Kelly Hall (Pennsylvania State University, USA); 5. Motivation, attitude and perception, Jean Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, UK); 6. Interlanguage and Fossilisation: Towards an Analytic Model (Zhao-Hong Han, Teachers College Columbia, USA); 7. Developments in language learner strategies, Ernesto Macaro (Oxford University, UK); 8. We do need methods (Michael Swan); 9. Integrating Content-Based and Task-Based Approaches for Teaching, Learning, and Research, Teresa Pica (University of Pennsylvania, USA); 10. The decline and fall of the native speaker teacher, Enric Llurda (University of Lleida, Catalonia); 11. Third culture and language education, Claire Kramsch (University of California at Berkeley, USA); 12. New roles for L2 vocabulary?, Paul Nation (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).

The Contemporary Studies in Linguistics series presents state-of-the-art accounts of current research in all areas of linguistics. Written by internationally renowned linguists, the volumes provide a selection of the best scholarship in each area. Each of the chapters appears on the basis of its importance to the field, but also with regards to its wider significance either in terms of methodology, practical application or conclusions. The result is a stimulating contemporary snapshot of the field and a vibrant reader for each of the areas covered the in series.