It is a privilege to be Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics in 2020 as it celebrates its 40th year. This is my fifth issue as Editor. I will begin this short introduction by paying tribute, with the help of Bill Grabe (Northern Arizona University), to the founding editor of the journal, Robert Kaplan (1929–2020). Without Robert Kaplan, none of us would be reading these pages. We will then turn to some comments from each of the previous editors on a few of the highlights of their time editing the journal, along with words for the future. After this, I will describe some recent updates, go through a few of the historical successes of the journal, and then turn to the contents of the exciting current issue, “Looking back and moving ahead.”

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40岁应用语言学年度回顾：回顾与前行

有幸成为本刊的主编应用语言学年度回顾在 2020 年庆祝成立 40 周年之际th年。这是我作为编辑的第五期。在 Bill Grabe（北亚利桑那大学）的帮助下，我将首先向该期刊的创始编辑罗伯特·卡普兰（Robert Kaplan，1929-2020 年）致敬。如果没有罗伯特·卡普兰，我们谁都不会阅读这些页面。然后，我们将转向每位前任编辑对他们编辑期刊时的一些亮点的评论，以及对未来的看法。在此之后，我将描述一些最近的更新，回顾一下该期刊的一些历史成功，然后转向令人兴奋的当前问题的内容，“回顾和前进”。