1. Applied linguistics at the interface Mike Baynham, Alice Deignan and Goodith White, University of Leeds 2. The agonism and the ecstacy: conflict and argument in applied linguistics Richard Badger, University of Leeds 3. The effects of structured input activities and explicit information on the acquisition of gender agreement in Italian and the simple past in Spanish Alessandro Benati and Paula Romero-Lopez, University of Greenwich 4. Chinese-speaking childrens' awareness of English phonological units Fu-hsing Su and Huang Li-szu, National Chiayi University and Fooyin University, Taiwan 5. Subverting conversational repair in a hostile email discussion Sandra Harrison, Coventry University 6. Citation analysis: a multidisciplinary perspective on academic literacy Nigel Harwood, University of Essex 7. The L2 learner corpus: reviewing its potential for the early stages of learning Anne Ife, Anglia Polytechnic University 8.

Composing competence: how L1 and L2 writing experience interact Hiroe Kobayashi and Carol Rinnert, Hiroshima University and Hiroshima City University 9. Frame shifting and identity construction during whole class instruction Vally Lytra, Kings College London 10. English in Africa and the emergence of Afro-Saxons: globalisation or marginalisation? Casmir Rubagumya, University of Dar es Salaam 11. Creativity, conformity and complexity in academic writing Mary Scott and Joan Turner, Institute of Education and Goldsmith's College 12. A Cantonese Syllabary for English soccer Geoff Smith, University of Hong Kong 13. Motivation in foreign language learning Marion Williams, University of Exeter.