Review on An Introduction to Applied Linguistics: from Practice to Theory

Applied linguistics research is an important branch of linguistics research [1]. Alan Davies, one of the founding fathers of applied linguistics, has published the second edition of the foundational textbook An Introduction to Applied Linguistics. This new textbook provides advanced introductions to the main research areas in contemporary applied linguistics, with a principal focus on the theory and practice of language teaching and language learning, as well as on the processes and problems of language use. This paper focuses on the main contents of the book, the evaluation of the book, and the inspiration it brings, with a view to providing new ideas and directions for applied linguistics research.