Applied Linguistics At The Interface ─ Selected Papers from the Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics, University of Leeds, September 2003

Thirteen selected papers from a September 2003 conference held at the U. of Leeds, UK, celebrate the productive interface between applied linguistics research and other disciplinary ways of knowing, forms of professional practice, and issues of public concern. A sampling of topics: conflict and argument in applied linguistics, the effects of structured input activities and explicit information on the acquisition of gender agreement in Italian and the simple past in Spanish, Chinese-speaking children's awareness of English phonological units, how L1 and L2 writing experience interact, frame shifting and identity construction during whole class instruction, a Cantonese syllabary for English soccer, and motivation in foreign language learning. No subject index. Distributed in the U.S. by the David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)