History of Applied Linguistics

<p>CHOICE Recommended: </p> <p>Aimed at investigating how language data can solve real-life problems applied linguistics brings together such otherwise separate realms as second-language acquisition anthropology and computer science. Its sheer breadth of application offers significant challenges to writing a cogent history of the discipline- even a brief account covering only the past 35 years. In <em>A History of Applied Linguistics</em> De Bot (Univ. of Groningen the Netherlands) succeeds in doing just that. Basing his discussion on direct feedback solicited from nearly a hundred scholars in the field the author touches on all major aspects of the development of applied linguistics including its milestones competing theories evolving trends and hitherto unresolved problems. <em>-- E. J. Vajda Western Washington University CHOICE Vol. 53 No. 3</em> </p>