Presents a picture of the field of Applied Linguistics. This book contains 32 articles that examine both the applications of linguistics to language data and the use of real world language to ameliorate social problems. It is suitable for students and researchers in applied linguistics, language teaching, and second language acquisition.
Implicit/ explicit knowledge constitutes a key distinction in the study of second language acquisition. This book reports a project that investigated ways of measuring implicit/explicit L2 knowledge and the relationship between the two types of knowledge and language proficiency.