This book, Issues in Applied Linguistics: Research & Practice, is a reference book in the form of book chapter which consists of 15 articles related to the area of applied linguistics. As a book chapter, this book contains a selection of papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language, Education, and Social Sciences (ICLESS) 2020 held in Kupang – East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. All these writings have generally incorporated several identifiable of its major branches, such as language teaching and evaluation, literacies, pragmatics, forensic linguistics, and translation.