Notes on contributor
Robert B. Kaplan is emeritus professor of applied linguistics in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. He was the founding editor of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and has served as an editor of the applied linguistics entries for both the first and second editions of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics. In addition, he is founding coeditor (with Richard B. Baldauf, Jr., deceased) of Current Issues in Language Planning. He has authored or edited some 60 books, more than 190 articles in scholarly journals and as chapters in books, and more than 90 book reviews and other more ephemeral pieces in various newsletters, as well as 10 special reports to government and to various institutions in the USA and elsewhere. Over a relatively long career, he has presented more than 200 talks, papers, and invited plenary addresses at national and international conferences. He has served as president of NAFSA (1983–1984), TESOL (1989–1990), and AAAL (1993–1994).