Frontmatter -- 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