The series Trends in Applied Linguistics meets the challenges of the rapidly growing field of
applied linguistics. In a very broad sense applied linguistics is understoodby focusing on the
application of theoretical linguistics to current problems arising in different contexts of
human society. Given the interdisciplinary character of applied linguistics the series
includes cognitive psycholinguistic sociolinguistic and educational perspectives. The
following topicsare included in the series: Second language acquisition and the acquisition of
additional languages Bilingual and multilingual education Language planning and language policy
Literacy skills Second foreign language pedagogy Translation and interpretation Language for
specific purposes Discourse analysis Language testing and assessment Child language Language
and gender Pragmatics and rhetorics Corpus analysis Critical pedagogies Research methodology in
applied linguistics Language and technology
