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The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics was designed to offer readers a sampling of the range of topics that have been investigated within applied linguistics and the approaches used to do so. As such, it serves as a tangible definition of applied linguistics. The detailed presentation of each of the topics in The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics reveals the potential scope of applied linguistics today, which is more comprehensively captured in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.

Yet, even in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, defining the boundaries of the field is a growing challenge with the expansion of language contact, language technologies, and approaches to research. More and more people, either by choice or by necessity, migrate to live in a location where they use an additional language. Such movement creates important issues such as how such transitions can be made in a manner that affords new residents and their children a genuine opportunity to succeed. Even people who remain physically within their first language context are seeing their physical linguistic landscape change as a result of the movement of others. Moreover, the Internet continues to create opportunities for connections across time and space, changing the way people communicate. The language–technology interface is an area of constant evolution as new forms of communication are taken up by individuals who invent new uses for them. Readers will find The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics a good starting point for learning about the way that applied linguists approach the study of language‐related problems.