Applied Linguistics
Welcome to the Applied Linguistics Zone!
Areas of the Zone
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Audio Podcasts and vodcasts from cutting-edge authors. |
Reading room Free journal articles, sample chapters from new and established publications, and articles written by top authors and up-and-coming research students. |
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Featured topic Read and listen to a range of information about a particular area of applied linguistics. This month: Genre. |
Your podcasts Listen to interviews with leading academics, by their students. |
Quote of the month
"Genres are abstractions ... they are not the written texts themselves, but conventional ways of doing things, realised through the written texts. "
Genres across the Disciplines (2012), p24, Hilary Nesi and Sheena Gardner
New Phonetics and Phonology glossary now available!
Acclaimed author of English Phonetics and Phonology, Peter Roach has released a fully interactive glossary containing all the technical terms you are going to need when learning phonetics.
Congratulations winner of Examining Speaking!
Last month we offered the chance to win a copy of Examining Speaking. We are pleased to announce that the winner is James from Brunei. Congratulations James, your copy of Examining Speaking is on its way to you now. Look out for more chances to win over the coming months.
Language Teaching: Surveys and Studies
Language Teaching is the essential research resource for language professionals providing a rich and expert overview of research in the field of second-language teaching and learning. It offers critical survey articles of recent research on specific topics, second and foreign languages and countries, and invites original research articles reporting on replication studies and meta-analyses.
The current offer available to followers of the Applied Linguistics Zone is:
- FREE Language Teaching Applied Linguistics MA/PhD Reading Pack available until May 31, 2012. This includes a selection of papers from Language Teaching and illustrates the journal's usefulness as a tool for new and continuing MA and PhD students and their advisors. You can access the pack here.
Hot off the press - Cambridge Extra!
Cambridge Extra is a free linguistics blog resource featuring journal articles, author interviews, news, updates, special offers, competitions and more. Try it today! Cambridge Extra
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