Applied Linguistics at the Interface between Scholarly Research and Society

Abstract

As a well-established area of study and research, Applied Linguistics can contribute to enhancing economic growth and societal well-being by facing today’s social challenges and integrating employability, inter nationalisation2 initiatives and knowledge transfer issues across higher education and elsewhere. This volume aims to first raise awareness of the significant contribution of Applied Linguistics to these key issues and then explore the challenges which scholars, researchers and students need to address when trying to build successful and sustainable collaboration between universities, industry and the public sector in national, transnational and international contexts.