The Social Contexts of Literacy:
Writing in the Face of Change
Deborah L. Brandt, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Multilingualism and Language Planning in Postcolonial
Africa: What Prospects for the Indigenous Languages?
Nkonko M. Kamwangamalu, Howard University

Sociocultural Theory and L2 Learning:
Three Research Agendas
James P. Lantolf, Pennsylvania State University

Language Policy and Language Planning:
Exemplary Applied Linguistics
Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne

The Emergence of a Second Language
Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University

The Linguistic Construction of National Identity
Yasir Suleiman, University of Edinburgh

Change, Power, and Learning:
Competing Discourses of Technology and Literacy
Mark Warschauer, University of California, Irvine