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International Journal of Applied Linguistics

Edited by:
Janina Brutt-Griffler and Daniel Perrin

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics (InJAL) publishes articles that explore the relationship between expertise in linguistics, broadly defined, and the everyday experience of language. Its scope is international in that it welcomes articles which show explicitly how local issues of language use or learning exemplify more global concerns.

TopNews and Announcements

Tribute to Willis Edmondson
Willis Edmondson, who died last December, was editor of InJAL for only a short time, and under circumstances which were as unusual and unpredictable as the man himself.

After retiring from his post as Professor of Applied Linguistics in Hamburg in 2005, instead of relaxing into an easy life, as one might have expected, he did exactly the opposite and went to teach for two years at the University of Hebron in Palestine. On his return, looking for another purposeful challenge, he took over the editorship of InJAL. It was then that he was told he had a brain tumour and given little time to live. In spite of subsequent surgery and debilitating chemotherapy, Willis carried on, undeterred and apparently unfazed, facing up to even this challenge with the same kind of individual integrity and purpose that characterized everything he did.

For Willis was unusual, out of the ordinary. This is not immediately apparent from his CV. Highly impressive though this is as a record of scholarly qualifications and achievements it does not indicate what was so unique about him. The list of degrees, publications, professorial appointments is conventional testimony to a most successful academic career, but it cannot reveal the unconventional ways of thinking that made Willis so remarkable. I know of nobody who was less hampered by established ideas or received wisdom. He had a way of cutting through obfuscation and pretention to get to the heart of things. Not only in academic argument, but in human relations, in life in general, he did things his own way, considerate of others, but true to himself, whether he was teaching a course, cooking pasta, composing poems or playing his saxophone.

He prompted and provoked us to think again and differently about familiar things. It is sad that he had so little time to make his distinctive mark as editor of InJAL. While paying tribute to the uniqueness of Willis Edmondson as scholar and personality, one cannot but regret what he might still have achieved if only he had lived a little while longer.

By H.G. Widdowson

The International Journal of Applied Linguistics is proud to be published in co-operation with the International Association of Applied Linguistics/Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquée (AILA)
We are pleased to announce that, from 2007, AILA has given its official endorsement of the International Journal of Applied Linguistics. The union will promote the goal of encouraging international scholarship that both the Journal and the Association share. AILA members will now receive a 20% discount on the Modern Language Journal, Language Learning, and the International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

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TopHighlights

• Applied Linguistics and the choices people make (or do they?)
  John E. Joseph
• Gender and power in applied linguistics: an epistemological challenge
  Sandra J. Savignon
• Men staying at home looking after their children: feminist linguistic reform and social change
  Jo Winter, Anne Pauwels
• Applied Linguistics and interdisciplinarity
  Henry G. Widdowson
• The Multilingual Subject
  Claire Kramsch
• The secret life of languages. Origin-specific differences in L1/L2 acquisition by immigrant children
  Katherine Brizic
• Language conflicts in the European Union
  Ulrich Ammon

TopEndorsements

'InJAL plays an important role in fostering creative interdisciplinarity within high quality applied linguistic research.' Ben Rampton, King's College London, UK

'Applied Linguistics is that critical space where linguistic theory and knowledge engage with the diverse worlds of lay and professional practice. InJAL has already broken new ground in reassessing how we develop those relationships. It is a journal best placed to promote a revitalised, more open and more self-aware Applied Linguistics.' Nikolas Coupland, University of Wales, Cardiff, UK

'InJAL is in my view an excellent journal. Its scholarly content is of a consistently high quality, and it engages with current issues in applied linguistics in a very effective way, not only by publishing papers by key people in the field, but by encouraging critical debate...No other journal has brought these contemporary and contentious issues so strikingly into the open.' Henry G. Widdowson