Wei, Li: Applied Linguistics Review. 2011 2

The Applied Linguistics Review (ALR) is a peer reviewed annual publication. It serves as a testing ground for the articulation of original ideas and approaches in the study of real-world issues in which language plays a crucial role, by bringing together new empirical and theoretical research and critical reflections of current debates. The issues dealt with in ALR range from aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence of the individual such as bilingualism and multilingualism, first or second language acquisition, literacy, language disorders, to language and communication related problems in and between societies such as linguistic discrimination, language conflict, communication in the workplace, language policy and language planning, and language ideology. The Applied Linguistics Review features contributions from scholars world-wide. Editor Li Wei Department of Applied Linguistics & Communication University of London, Birkbeck College E-mail: Associate Editors David Block, University of London, Institute of Education Bencie Woll, University College London Itesh Sachdev, University of London, SOAS International Advisory Board Keiko Abe, Kyoritsu Women's University, Japan Kingsley Bolton, City University of Hong Kong, China Vivian Cook, Newcastle University, UK Donna Christian, Center for Applied Linguistics, USA Annick De Houwer, University of Erfurt, Germany Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia, Canada Diana Eades, University of New England, Australia Yihong Gao, Beijing University, China Ofelia Garcia, City University of New York Graduate Center, USA Susan Gass, University of Michigan, USA Fred Genesee, McGill University, Canada Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania, USA Alex Housen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Andy Kirkpatrick, Hong Kong Institute of Education, China Claire Kramsch, University of California, Berkeley, USA Mayouf Ali Mayouf, University of Sebha, Libya Tim McNamara, University of Melbourne, Australia Ben Rampton, King's College London, UK Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University, Israel David Singleton, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Anna Verschik, Tallinn Pedagogical University, Estonia Terry Wiley, Arizona State University, USA Lawrence Zhang, National Institute of Education, Singapore Call for Papers If you are interested in submitting a paper to the Applied Linguistics Review, please consult the guidelines for submission by the publisher and contact the Principal Editor. We are particularly interested in papers that not only report new research findings but also critically engage in current debates over theoretical and methodological issues in applied linguistics and communication generally and point to directions of future research. Each article should be around 8,000 words in English, with a short abstract, a brief bi