It is a great pleasure to be writing an editorial welcome for the first inaugural issue of Applied Research in English. Research on language, teaching practices, and communication patterns has been growing rapidly both nationally and internationally. Therefore, I believe the publication of Applied Research in English is timely. More specifically, research is growing rapidly in such areas as classroom discourse, gender issues in education, use of technology in language teaching, curricula innovation in language education and sociolinguistic practices in society, among others. Obviously, it was the intersection of these issues and the desire to reflect inter-disciplinary research paradigms that spurred the creation of this journal. Furthermore, the journal makes an endeavour to bring together researchers whose work falls within areas such as approaches to the teaching and learning of modern languages in higher education and cultural expression through teaching and reading literature. The journal welcomes potential contributions in any of these areas for future editions.