Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Part 1 Future Implications for Bilingualism -- 2 The Future of the Bilingual Advantage -- 3 The Multilingual Brain: Implications for the Future -- 4 Phonological and Semantic Awareness of Bilinguals and Second Language Learners: Potential Implications for Second Language Instruction -- 5 Perception of Checked Vowels by Early and Late Dutch/English Bilinguals - Towards a New Measure of Language Dominance -- Part 2 Future Implications for Second Language Acquisition and Language Policy: Theoretical Considerations -- 6 Recent Advances in Quantitative Methods in Age-related Research -- 7 Language Policy in Ukraine: The Burdens of the Past and the Possibilities of the Future -- 8 The Reanalysis of -end as Marker for Gender-sensitive Language Use and What This Implies for the Future Expression of Gender Equality -- 9 Analytic Framework of the Critical Classroom: Language and Beyond -- 10 Strategies in Multilingual Learning: Opening New Research Avenues -- Part 3 Future Implications for Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Empirical Evidence -- 11 Academic Writing Development: A Complex, Dynamic Process -- 12 Lessons Learned from the Integration of Findings from Identical and Semi-Cognate Visual and Auditory Processing in Bilingual Cognate Studies: Implications for Future Studies -- 13 The Impact of Attitudes on Language Retention of Russian as a Foreign Language in Hungary: Some Lessons to be Learnt from Attrition Studies -- 14 Concluding Thoughts: A Road Map for Future Research in Applied Linguistics -- Index