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
26 Russell Square, Bloomsbury
London WC1B 5DQ
UK
E-mail: li.wei@bbk.ac.uk

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 bionote and a list of key words.