About the series
Applied Linguistics has moved a long way from the earlier concerns with professional issues in language teaching and learning to much broader investigations into language-related matters in real-world contexts. It has developed its own theories and diverse methodological perspectives.
Applied linguists have studied systematically and critically the language classroom, the multilingual workplace, new learning environments, new media and professional contexts, as well as the role of language in nation-building, identity construction and negotiation, socio-cultural change, geopolitics, migration, policy and planning, and social justice.
New topics emerge with language and cultural flow and contact across the globe.
Elements in this series
About the editors:
Zhu Hua is Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London (UCL) and is a Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK.
Her research is centered around multilingual and intercultural communication. She has also studied child language development and language learning.
She is book series co-editor for Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication and Cambridge Key Topics in Applied Linguistics, and Forum and Book Reviews Editor of Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press).
Li Wei is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London (UCL), and Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences, UK. His research covers the broad area of bilingualism and multilingualism.
He was the founding editor of the following journals:
- International Journal of Bilingualism (Sage),
- Applied Linguistics Review (De Gruyter),
- Language, Culture and Society (Benjamins),
- Chinese Language and Discourse (Benjamins) and
- Global Chinese (De Gruyter),
He is currently Editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Taylor and Francis).
His books the Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (with Melissa Moyer) and Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Ofelia Garcia) won the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize.
Hear more from Li Wei about the series
Series topics
Mirroring the Cambridge Key Topics in Applied Linguistics, this Elements series focuses on the key topics, concepts and methods in applied linguistics today.
It revisits and reviews core concepts and notions (e.g. the native speaker, culture, authenticity, legitimacy, identity, competence, power, ideology) in different domains (e.g., classroom, family, the workplace, media, on-line, tourism, business), modes (e.g., face-to-face interactions, digitally mediated communication, online, discourse, interpreting) and with analytical foci of communications (e.g. interpersonal, intercultural communication or ELF (English as Lingua Franca).
It will also explore new emerging topics in applied linguistics.
All topics are examined in connection with real-world issues and the broader political, economic and ideological discourses in the world today.
Contact the Editors
If you are interested in publishing in this series, please contact the editors Li Wei at: li.wei@ucl.ac.uk or Zhu Hua at: h.zhu.3@bham.ac.uk