世界應用語言學名家自選集叢書收錄了世界知名應用語言學家的學術論文，是國內首次以國際著名應用語言學家為主線的自選集。入選文章多散見於國陳學術期刊，且時間跨度很大，讀者不易尋得。自選集展示了作者在應用語言學方面的研究脈絡，彙集成叢書，是應用語言學研究不可多得的資料。本叢書讀者對像為英語教師、英語專業研究生、本科生等，可作為其從事科研、撰寫論文的參考文獻。
《理查茲應用語言學自選集》為理查茲教授(Jack C．Richards)應用語言學研究的論文精選，凝聚了理查茲教授近四十年來教學與研究的心得，體現了他在本領域所做出的傑出貢獻。

Preface I
Preface II
Looking Back: Reflections on a Career in Applied Linguistics
Part I State-of-the-art Essays
Growing up with TESOL: A Personal Reflection
Communicative Language Teaching Today
Second Language Teacher Education Today
Speech Acts and Second Language Learning (with Richard W. Schmidt)
Language Transfer and Conversational Competence (with Mayuri Sukwiwat)
Part 2 Curriculum, Methods and Materials
Language Curriculum Development
Method: Approach, Design, and Procedure (with Ted Rodgers)
The Secret Life of Methods
Beyond Methods
The Status of Grammar in the Language Curriculum
Textbooks: Help or Hindrance in Teaching?
Materials Development and Research--Making the Connection
The Role of Vocabulary Teaching
Part 3 Teaching Listening, Speaking and Reading
Teaching Listening and Speaking: From Theory to Practice
Listening Comprebension: Approach, Design, Procedure
The Effect of Discourse Markers on the Comprehension of Lectures (with Craig Chaudron)
Conversational Competence through Role Play Activities
A Profile of an Effective Reading Teacher
Addressing the Grammar Gap in Task Work
Part 4 Understanding the Nature of Language
Teaching
Teachers Maxims in Language Teaching
Exploring Teachers Beliefs and the Processes of Change (with Patrick B. Gallo and Willy A. Renandya)
Teacher Beliefs and Decision Making
Whats the Use of Lesson Plans?
Exploring Pedagogical Reasoning Skills (with Benjamin Li and Angela Tang)
Learning How to Teach in the RSA Cert (with Belinda Ho and Karen Giblin)
Competence and Performance in Language Teaching
Part 5 The Second-language Teacher Development
Program
Beyond Training: Approaches to Teacher Education in Language Teaching
Content Knowledge and Instructional Practice in Second Language Teacher Education
Conceptions of Teaching and the Education of Second Language Teachers (with Donald Freeman)
The First Year of Teaching (with Martha Pennington)
Teaching and Learning in the Language Teacher Education Course Room: A Critical Sociocultural Perspective (with Gurmit Singh)
Postscript
List of Publications