"The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics is the first reference work of its kind, containing thirty-nine original chapters on a broad range of topics in applied linguistics by a diverse group of contributors. Systematically encompassing the major areas of applied linguistics - and drawing from a wide range of disciplines such as education, language policy, bi-lingualism and multilingualism, literacy, language and gender, language and computers, discourse analysis, language and concordinances, ecology of language, pragmatics, translation, psycholinguistics and cognition, and many other fields - the editors and contributors provide a panoramic and comprehensive look at this complex and vigorous field. The Oxford Handbook of Applied Linguistics addresses a broad audience: applied linguists; educators, and other scholars working in language acquisition, language learning, language planning, teaching, and testing; and linguists concerned with applications of their work."--BOOK JACKET