This open access edited volume presents a series of studies utilizing a variety of linguistic research techniques to investigate areas of language education, acquisition and assessment, contemporary political debate, modern and historical print media, and clinical language disorders, in the Indonesian context. In doing so, the authors provide a rich and diverse overview of current research in the fields of linguistics and applied linguistics. The initial section focuses on research conducted in educational settings, focusing on English-medium instruction (EMI), reading assessment, discovery-based learning, cultural elements in textbooks, and pre-service teacher preparation in Indonesia, offering recommendations for improving language education. The second section demonstrates the applications of corpus linguistics, focusing on collocation patterns in different languages, lexical use and context of rhetorical markers, and authorship determination. A third section presents investigations related to aspects of historical and contemporary language use in a variety of contexts, including advertisements, political debate, Indonesian print media, and translanguaging and multilingual writings, discussing the social and cultural dimensions of language use in Indonesia. The final section focuses on clinical linguistics, investigating the relationship between language disorders and language use, including spoken narratives provided by patients with Alzheimer's and the structure and time reference use of agrammatic speakers, with valuable insights into the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of language disorders. Brought together in a single volume, the chapters illustrate how linguistic analysis can be applied across a variety of disciplines and research sites. The volume is relevant to linguists, educators, sociologists, historians, and members of the medical community with particular interest in the Indonesian context.
Author Biography:
Richmond Stroupe has worked with university and professional language learners from Asia since 1989. He received a PhD in International Comparative Education from the University of Southern California and has been involved in the development of language learning programs in a number of contexts. He is currently the Chair of the Master's Program in International Language Education: TESOL at Soka University, Japan. Richmond is professionally active as the President of the Japan Association for Language Teaching (JALT); in the United States, he works with the TESOL International Association through involvement in various committees and task forces; and in Cambodia, with CamTESOL (Cambodia TESOL) as a member of the Advisory Board of the IDP Education sponsored Language Education in Asia publication. Richmond actively conducts workshops, publishes and presents on a variety of professional activities and research projects, which include teacher education practices, curriculum and professional development, and developing learners' critical thinking skills. His most recent co-edited book publication (with Subhan Zein) is English Language Teacher Preparation in Asia: Policy, Research and Practice, published with Routledge Critical Studies in Asian Education.
Lilie Roosman is the Editor-in-Chief of Wacana Journal, published by the Faculty of Humanities at Universitas Indonesia, where she is currently teaching in the Dutch Studies programme. She received her PhD from Universiteit Leiden following her dissertation 'Phonetic Experiments on the World and Sentence Prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak'. Her main research area is experimental phonetics.
