The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics

Acknowledgments

The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics is the result of many years of work by a large group of people who shared their expertise to define and explain applied linguistics to a wide audience of prospective readers. It began with the compilation of The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, which was published by Wiley Blackwell online in 2012 and in print in 2013. The conception of the original Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics benefited from the expertise of an advisory board consisting of established leaders in the field: Lyle F. Bachman, Heidi Byrnes, Dorothy M. Chun, Malcolm Coulthard, Alan Davies, Susan M. Gass, Nancy H. Hornberger, Gabriele Kasper, Claire Kramsch, Elana Shohamy, and Bernard Spolsky. I am grateful to the advisory board for their guidance in building the robust architecture for the Encyclopedia, which has stood the test of time. It is currently in use in over 1,000 libraries in more than 50 countries throughout the world.

I thank the area editors who conceptualized how each of the 27 topics in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics should be elaborated and then worked with the authors to develop each topic to reflect the relevant expertise. The following people worked diligently in this capacity: Karin Aijmer, Claudia V. Angelelli, Brian Baer, Jasone Cenoz, Thomas Cobb, Ulla Connor, Patricia Friedrich, Marta González‐Lloret, Durk Gorter, Nadja Grbic, Marianne Gullberg, Dorothea Halbe, Linda Harklau, Joan Jamieson, Rodney H. Jones, ...