Full Description
Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist contains narrative accounts of the lives of thirteen well-established applied linguists. Their professional autobiographies document the development of some of the key areas of applied linguistics - second, language acquisition, motivation, grammar, vocabulary, testing, second language writing, second language classroom research, practitioner research, English as a lingua franca, teacher cognition, and computer-assisted language learning. The book tells how these applied linguists grew into their areas of specialization. It will be of interest to any would-be applied linguist. The book also provides a readable overview of the whole field that will be of value to students of applied linguistics.
Contents
1. Introduction: Background to the Life Histories (by Ellis, Rod); 2. A Professional Life: Teacher, Teacher Educator and Researcher (by Ellis, Rod); 3. A Lexical Journey (by Nation, I.S.P.); 4. Looking back on a lifetime in language testing (by Alderson, J.Charles); 5. Sidesteps towards applied linguistics: In Search of a Career (by Skehan, Peter); 6. From English Language Teaching to Psycholinguistics: A Story of Three Decades (by Dornyei, Zoltan); 7. My Story: It Was Always About Writing (by Ferris, Dana); 8. A very peculiar practice (by Hyland, Ken); 9. From Language Learner to Language Learning Researcher (by Lightbown, Patsy M.); 10. A Career in Language Teacher Cognition (by Borg, Simon); 11. Happenchance and Circumstance (by Kirkpatrick, Andy); 12. The Road Travelled (by Gass, Susan M.); 13. My Two Problems in Applied Linguistics (by Chapelle, Carol A.); 14. Becoming an Applied Linguist and Teacher Educator: A 'Brilliant' Caree (by Burns, Anne); 15. Conclusion: Becoming and Being an Applied Linguist and Doing Applied Linguistics (by Ellis, Rod); 16. Index
