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. 327 pp.