Few applied linguists are as deserving of a book in their honor as Bob Kaplan and few have been as richly served by the resulting volume. The twenty or so contributions, many written by leading figures in the field, cover the areas for which Kaplan’s work is best known—language education, EAP, contrastive rhetoric, and language planning. What shines through is how rich and vibrant a field applied linguistics has become in recent years. What also shines through is Bob Kaplan’s role as a scholar, an educator, an editor and, perhaps most significantly, as a mentor of doctoral students and younger colleagues. So we additionally find in this volume, affectionate and appreciative accounts of Bob Kaplan’s influence on the scholarly development of important applied linguists of a generation after his.

Paul Bruthiaux, Dwight Atkinson, William G. Eggington, William Grabe and Vaidehi Ramanathan conducted their doctoral research at the University of Southern California in the 1980s and 1990s, with Robert B. Kaplan playing a significant role in their development as applied linguists. Now they have joined forces to co-edit a collection of essays and research papers that review current trends across the spectrum of applied linguistics and discuss their implications for the future the field.

Part 1: Perspectives on Applied Linguistics

Introduction - Paul Bruthiaux

1. Applied Linguistics, Interdisciplinarity, and Disparate Realities - Henry G. Widdowson

2. Is Language Policy Applied Linguistics? - Bernard Spolsky

Part 2: Language Education

Introduction - Vaidehi Ramanathan

3. Sharing Community Languages: Utopian Dream or Realistic Vision? - Michael Clyne

4. Documenting Curricular Reform: Innovative Foreign Language Education in Elementary School - Rocío Domínguez, G. Richard Tucker and Richard Donato

5. Research Perspectives on Non-native English-speaking Educators - Lía D. Kamhi-Stein

Part 3: English for Academic Purposes

Introduction - Dwight Atkinson

6. Reflections of a ‘Blue Collar Linguist:’ Analysis of Written Discourse, Classroom Research, and EAP Pedagogy - Dana R. Ferris

7. English for Academic Purposes: Issues in Undergraduate Writing and Reading - Ann M. Johns

8. 'Ear' Learners and Error in US College Writing - Joy Reid

9. Teachers’ Perceptions of Lexical Anomalies: A Pilot Study - Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman

Part 4: Contrastive Discourse Analysis

Introduction - William Grabe

10. Tertium Comparationis: A Vital Component in Contrastive Rhetoric Research - Ulla M. Connor and Ana I. Moreno

11. Structure and Style in the Narrative Writings of Mexican-American and African-American Adolescents - Ann Daubney-Davis and Genevieve Patthey-Chavez

12. Functions of Personal Examples and Narratives in L1 and L2 Academic Prose - Eli Hinkel

13. Cross-cultural Variation in Classroom Turn-taking Practices - Deborah Poole

Part 5: Language Policy and Planning

Introduction - William G. Eggington

14. Micro Language Planning - Richard B. Baldauf Jr

15. The Englishization of Spanish in Mexico - Robert J. Baumgardner

16. Including Discourse in Language Planning Theory - Joseph Lo Bianco

17. World-Language: Foreign Language Policy in Hungary - Péter Medgyes

References

Robert B. Kaplan: Biography and Publications

Index