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The essays and research papers in this collection explore current issues across four areas: Language Education, English for Academic Purposes, Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning. Contributors reflect on the nature and scope of applied linguistics, review its evolution, and vigorously debate the dynamic process whereby theory and practice inform each other and jointly drive the field as an academic discipline and a locus for reflection and action regarding language-related social issues.

Paul Bruthiaux and Dwight Atkinson conducted their doctoral research at the University of Southern California. William G. Eggington is Professor of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He is member of the Board of Directors of TESOL. William Grabe is Professor of English at Northern Arizona University and teaches in the Applied Linguistics Ph.D and MA-TESL program. Vaidehi Ramanathan is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California at Davis.