I have been interested in the study of language since I was a very young kid, and this caused me to give up everything else just to focus on the study of language. Applied linguistics has specifically been my passion and blessing, and every now and then I prepare a bibliography of research on applied linguistics for people who are interested in…

Language attrition research has developed in several clearly delimited phases spanning, roughly, each of the three decades between 1982 and 2012 (see Kopke & Schmid 2004 for a more detailed overview and analysis). The first phase was an era of stocktaking, with a number of symposia, collected volumes and special issues of journals. All of…

The history of research into dictionary use tends to be characterised by small-scale studies undertaken in a variety of different contexts, rather than larger-scale, longer-term funded projects. The research conducted by dictionary publishers is not generally made public, because of its commercial sensitivity, yet because dictionary production is…

This article presents an annotated bibliography of "Research in the Teaching of English" (RTE). The 2010 version of the bibliography involves a major change--the bibliography is available solely as a downloadable pdf file at http://www.ncte.org/journals/rte/issues/v45-2. As the length of the bibliography has grown from 15 pages in 2003 to 88 pages…

Defines and traces the history of diglossia, and offers an extensive bibliography on the subject. The need for an overall integration of research within the socioevolutionary context of diglossia is highlighted. (32 references) (LT)

This is an attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of materials relevant to the Lakota (Teton Dakota or Teton Sioux) language, with comments for most items. It covers the period 1887-1990, and is intended to supplement an earlier bibliography (One Hundred Years of Lakota Linguistics (1887-1987)), published in "Kansas Working Papers in…

Forty-three theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions of central issues in second- and foreign-language writing and writing instruction are compiled in this annotated bibliography. Covering the period April 1 through July 31, 1993, the citations are categorized as follows: writers, processes, texts, readers, context, instruction,…

Presents the second part of a two-part annotated bibliography of work on extensive reading in a second language. The bibliography offers a classification that may be of value to the teacher or researcher in reading in a foreign language, and that may assist in course development. (Author/VWL)

This annotated bibliography lists research published between 1960 and 1980 in the field of vocabulary acquisition and word handling in a second language. The bibliography is divided into two sections. The first contains 280 entries listed alphabetically. A short abstract is provided for each entry. The second section is a supplementary…

This bibliography is a follow-up to the "Specialised Bibliography 3," published by the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, in 1983. This volume covers work in the field of second language vocabulary acquisition that has appeared between 1980 and 1985. There are approximately 300 entries in this bibliography, and for each…

This bibliography contains 410 annotated citations, in French or English, of research reports, journal articles, monographs, and papers on aspects of language variation. Each citation includes basic bibliographic information, publication type, availability information, an annotation, content classifications, and descriptors. Listings are also…

This paper reviews studies of the use of cloze techniques to measure listening comprehension. After briefly discussing the origins and characteristics of the cloze procedure, nine specific studies of the aural cloze are discussed. General conclusions are drawn from these studies and directions for future research are offered. (AA)

Presents an annotated bibliography summarizing theoretically grounded reports of research and discussions of central issues in second- and foreign-language writing and writing instruction recently available. (CK)

This annotated bibliography contains 75 citations of research on terminological syntagma, the lexical unity composed of a group of words, syntactically linked and having a single meaning in a specific context (e.g., "atmospheric pressure"). The items listed are from the period between 1960 and 1988, and include national and international…

This annotated, selected bibliography contains 123 citations of information sources and research in the emerging field of terminology. While the bibliography is written in French, not all items cited are in French. The main section of the bibliography is an alphabetical listing by author of citations containing basic bibliographic information, an…