Simone E. Pfenninger is Assistant Professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Her research interests include multilingualism, psycholinguistics and the age factor in SLA, especially in regard to quantitative approaches and statistical methods and techniques for language application in education.Judit Navracsics is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary. Her research interests are bi- and multilingual development in early childhood, the bilingual mental lexicon and bilingual processing.

• 1. Simone E. Pfenninger and Judit Navracsics: IntroductionPART I: FUTURE IMPLICATIONS FOR BILINGUALISM2. Kees de Bot: The Future of the Bilingual Advantage3. Valéria Csépe: The Multilingual Brain – Implications for the Future4. Judit Navracsics and Gyula Sáry: Phonological and Semantic Awareness of Bilinguals and Second Language Learners - Potential Implications for Second Language Instructors5. Vincent J. van Heuven: Perception of Checked Vowels by Early and Late Dutch/English Bilinguals - Towards a New Measure of Language Dominance PART II: FUTURE IMPLICATIONS FOR SLA AND LANGUAGE POLICY: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS6. Simone E. Pfenninger and David Singleton: Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Age-Related Research7. István Csernicskó: Language Policy in Ukraine: The Burdens of the Past and the Possibilities of the Future8. Lars Bülow and Rüdiger Harnisch: The Reanalysis of -End as Marker for Gender-Sensitive Language Use and What This Implies for the Future Expression of Gender Equality9. Gyöngyi Fábián: Analytic Framework of the Critical Classroom: Language and Beyond10. Ulrike Jessner and Valentina Török: Strategies in Multilingual Learning: Opening New Research AvenuesPART III: FUTURE IMPLICATIONS FOR INSTRUCTED SLA: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE11. Wouter Penris and Marjolijn Verspoor: Academic Writing Development: A Complex, Dynamic Process12. Kristina Cergol Kovačević: Lessons Learned from the Integration of Findings from Bilingual Identical and Semi-Cognate Processing Studies – Implications for Future Studies13. Szilvia Bátyi: Some Lessons to be Learnt from Attrition Studies14. Simone E. Pfenninger and Judit Navracsics: Concluding Thoughts: A Road Map for Future Research in Applied LinguisticsGlossary and Index

This is a timely collection of chapters by well-known scholars, in which an innovative research agenda and approach to applied linguistics are proposed, emphasizing its multidisciplinary character. I believe it is essential reading for all who are interested in the most recent developments in understanding what applied linguistics is and where it is going.