Book Award
The American Association for Applied Linguistics Book Award recognizes outstanding work in the field of applied linguistics. In bestowing this award, the association honors
Recipients
2020
"The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language"
Edited By: Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
Finalists:
Authors: Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University; Alison Mackey, Georgetown University; and Naoko
Taguchi, Northern Arizona University
Publisher: Routledge
Educating Refugee-background Students: Critical Issues and Dynamic Contexts
Authors: Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College; Raichle Farrelly, Saint Michael’s College; and Mary Jane
Curry, University of Rochester
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Scripts of Servitude: Language, Labor Migration and Transnational Domestic Work
Author: Beatriz P. Lorente, University of Bern
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
2018
Edited Book: 
"Language Policy and Political Economy"
Edited by: Thomas Ricento
Publisher: Oxford University Press
No Finalists
Monograph:
"The Invention of Monolingualism"
Author: David Gramling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Finalists:
"Emotion and Discourse in L2 Narrative Research"
Author: Matthew T. Prior
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
"Metrolingualism"
Author: Alastair Pennycook, Emi Otsuji
Publisher: Routledge
"Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition Processing"
Author: Nick C. Ellis, Ute Römer, Matthew Brook O'Donnell, Mary J. Schleppegrell
Publisher: Wiley
2016
"Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations"
Author: Suresh Canagarajah, Professor at The Pennsylvania State University
Publisher: Routledge
Finalists:
"The Language of Murder Cases: Intentionality, Predisposition, and Voluntariness"
Author: Roger W. Shuy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
"Second Language Learning in the Early School Years: Trends and Contexts"
Author: Victoria A. Murphy
Publisher: Oxford University Press