Contents -- Contributors -- Part 1 Perspectives on Applied Linguistics -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Applied Linguistics, Interdisciplinarity, and Disparate Realities -- Chapter 2 Is Language Policy Applied Linguistics? -- Part 2 Language Education -- Introduction -- Chapter 3 Sharing Community Languages: Utopian Dream or Realistic Vision? -- Chapter 4 Documenting Curricular Reform: Innovative Foreign Language Education in Elementary School -- Chapter 5 Research Perspectives on Non-native English-speaking Educators -- Part 3 English for Academic Purposes -- Introduction -- Chapter 6 Reflections of a 'Blue Collar Linguist:' Analysis of Written Discourse, Classroom Research, and EAP Pedagogy -- Chapter 7 English for Academic Purposes: Issues in Undergraduate Writing and Reading -- Chapter 8 'Ear' Learners and Error in US College Writing -- Chapter 9 Teachers' Perceptions of Lexical Anomalies: A Pilot Study -- Part 4 Contrastive Discourse Analysis -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 Tertium Comparationis: A Vital Component in Contrastive Rhetoric Research -- Chapter 11 Structure and Style in the Narrative Writings of Mexican-American and African-American Adolescents -- Chapter 12 Functions of Personal Examples and Narratives in L1 and L2 Academic Prose -- Chapter 13 Cross-cultural Variation in Classroom Turn-taking Practices -- Part 5 Language Policy and Planning -- Introduction -- Chapter 14 Micro Language Planning -- Chapter 15 The Englishization of Spanish in Mexico -- Chapter 16 Including Discourse in Language Planning Theory -- Chapter 17 World-Language: Foreign Language Policy in Hungary -- References -- Robert Kaplan: Biography and Publications -- Index.