Intersections: Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place
This book makes an essential contribution to the developing and expanding scope of the field of applied linguistics through an understanding of applied linguistics as a meeting place.
As Terrence G. Wiley of the Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC, states in the Foreword, Intersections: Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place “extends the boundaries of the field while providing spaces for mediating within it and between other disciplines.”
This book presents 16 papers by important researchers working in various countries around the globe. It focuses on the many junctions within applied linguistics and its intersections with other disciplines and areas of practice as diverse as education, indigenous issues, language development, literacy, and social interaction. Applied linguistics also has connections with broader areas such as the arts, law, medicine and health, society, politics and policy, and technology.
The book will appeal to academics, teachers, teacher educators, and undergraduate and postgraduate students working in applied linguistics and language education, and those who take an interest in the many connections between applied linguistics and other disciplines and areas of practice.
Elke Stracke is an Associate Professor in the TESOL/Foreign Language Teaching Programme in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra, Australia. As an educator and researcher, she is interested in language learning and teaching, and feedback practices and peer learning in postgraduate supervision practice. In her work, she draws on her experience of teaching and researching in Applied Linguistics and TESOL in Australia, China, Germany, New Zealand, and Vietnam.
"[T]he authors of this volume successfully show that an intersection is not only a metaphor for a meeting place for people, such as a conference, but that it can also create a space for a large variety of interdisciplinary research projects. Creating and filling this research niche is the biggest contribution of this book to the field of applied linguistics.... Another advantage of the book is that despite the fact that most of the studies look at various non-European contexts, the detailed contextual information makes it easy to transfer knowledge gained in these studies to other contexts, such as Europe. This means that the book is not only relevant but potentially eye-opening."
Kata Csizér Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 5: 4 (2015)
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