A ground-breaking resource available either online or as a 10-volume print set bringing together historic and emerging areas of research within applied linguistics

Combines individual entries ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 words, with longer, essaystyle contributions giving a detailed overview of key developments and ideas

Includes over 1,100 entries written by an international team of scholars from over 40 countries

Covers 27 key areas of the field, including Language Learning and Teaching, Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Assessment and Testing, Corpus Linguistics,

Conversation Analysis, Discourse, Cognitive Second Language Acquisition, Language, Policy and Planning, Literacy, and Technology and Language

Features over 200 entries on the philosophy and history of applied linguistics and biographies of key applied linguists

Updates and new articles available twice a year, enabling the work to stay relevant and cutting-edge