Robert B. Kaplan is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Southern California.

• 1. Preface to 1st edition (Kaplan) ; 2. Preface to 2nd edition (Kaplan) ; 3. Brief Biographies of Contributors ; PART I. INTRODUCTION ; 4. Whence Applied Linguistics: The 20th Century / Robert B. Kaplan ; 5. Applied Linguistics: An Emerging Discipline for the Twenty-first Century / William Grabe ; 6. Research Approaches in Applied Linguistics / Patricia A. Duff ; PART II. THE FOUR SKILLS: SPEAKING, LISTENING, 101 ; READING, AND WRITING ; 7. Speaking / Martin Bygate ; 8. Listening: Sources, Skills and Strategies / Tony Lynch ; 9. Reading in a Second Language / William Grabe ; 10. Second Language Writing in English / Ilona Leki ; 11. Integrating the Four Skills: Current and Historical Perspectives / Eli Hinkel ; PART III. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS ; 12. Discourse Analysis and Applied Linguistics / Deborah Poole and Betty Samraj ; PART IV. THE STUDY OF SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING ; 13. Perspectives from Formal Linguistics on Second Language Acquisition / Alan Juffs ; 14. Sociocultural Theory and the Pedagogical Imperative / James P. Lantolf ; 15. Language Learner Identities and Sociocultural Worlds / Killeen Toohey and Bonny Norton ; 16. Computational Models of Second Language Sentence Processing / Michael Harrington ; 17. Second Language Acquisition: A Social Psychological Perspective / Robert C. Gardner ; 18. Interactionist Perspectives on Second Language Acquisition / Susan Gass ; 19. Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig ; 20. Applied Linguistics and the Neurobiology of Language / John Schumann ; PART V. THE STUDY OF SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING ; 21. Curriculum Development in Foreign Language Education: The Interface Between Political and Professional Decisions / Peter Medgyes and Marianne Nikolov ; 22. Content-Based Second Language Instruction / Marjorie Wesche ; 23. Bilingual Education / Colin Baker ; PART VI. VARIATION IN LANGUAGE USE AND LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE ; 24. Language Transfer and Cross-Linguistic Studies: An Update / Terence Odlin ; 25. Language Uses in Professional Contexts / Mary McGroarty ; PART VII. BILINGUALISM AND THE INDIVIDUAL LEARNER ; 26. Cognitive Processing in Bilinguals: From Static to Dynamic Models / Kees de Bot ; 27A The Bilingual Lexicon ; 27B. The Bilingual Lexicon: An Update / Judith Kroll ; PART VIII. MULTLINGUALISM IN SOCIETY ; 28. Language Contact / Peter Nelde* ; 29. Pidgins and Creoles / Jeff Siegel ; 30. Language Spread and Its Study in the 21st century / Ofelia Garcia ; 31. Language Shift and Language Revitalization / Nancy H. Hornburger ; 32. Ecology of Languages / Peter Muhlhausler ; PART IX. LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING ; 33. Methodology for Policy and Planning / Richard B. Baldauf, Jr. ; 34. Unplanned Language Planning / William G. Eggington ; 35. Perspectives on Language Policy and Planning / James Tollefson ; PART X. TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION ; 36. Translation / Sara Laviosa ; 37. Interpretating / Nancy Schweda Nicholson ; PART XI. LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION ; 38. Technology in Standardized Language Assessments / Micheline Chalhoub-Deville ; PART XII. TECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS ; 39. Progress and New Directions in Technology for Automated Essay Evaluation / Jill Burstein and Martin Chodorow ; 40. Computer-Assisted Language Learning / Carol A. Chapelle ; 41. Research in Corpus Linguistics / Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen and Eric Friginal ; PART XIII. CONCLUSION ; 42. Where to From Here? / Robert B. Kaplan ; 43. References ; 44. Name Index ; 45. Subject Index

It must be said that it is an impressive publishing achievement. The task of analyzing the field, deciding on disciplines to be covered, finding willing contributors of sufficient status from all over the world and then combining the articles from these contributors into an edited whole must have been a massive one, and it has been largely successful. Oxford University Press, Robert Kaplan and the editorial board are to be congratulated on their initiative and the result it has produced.