Pawel Szudarski is Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK. He works in the areas of second language acquisition, corpus linguistics and TESOL, focusing in particular on the acquisition of vocabulary and phraseology by second/foreign language learners. His other interests include corpus-based analysis, replication research, and distance learning.

Samuel Barclay is Senior Lecturer of TESOL at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His work spans English language teaching, English for academic purposes, syllabus design, and second language acquisition, with a specific interest in all aspects of second language vocabulary studies.

Contributors

Michael McCarthy: Foreword

1. Samuel Barclay and Pawel Szudarski: Introduction

Part 1: Theorizing and Testing Vocabulary

2. Stuart Webb: Innovation in Measures of Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

3. Beatriz González-Fernández: Vocabulary Knowledge: Lexical Depth and Its Relationship with Out-of-Class Exposure

4. Benjamin Kremmel: Does One Size Fit All? Comparing Two Computer-Adaptive Algorithms for a Diagnostic Vocabulary Test

5. Wen-ta Tseng: The Effects of Item Exposure Control on English Vocabulary Size Estimates in Computerized-Adaptive Testing

Part 2: Formulaic Language 

6. Batia Laufer: Formulaic Sequences and Second Language Learning

7. Phil Durrant and Mark Brenchley: The Development of Academic Collocations in Children's Writing

8. Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Laura Vilkaite-Lozdiene and Anna Siyanova-Chanturia: Examining L2 Learners' Confidence of Collocational Knowledge

9. Taha Omidian, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Phil Durrant: Predicting Parameters of Variation in the Use of Academic Multiword Expressions in University Student Writing

Part 3: Learning and Teaching L2 Vocabulary

10. Paul Nation and Averil Coxhead: Vocabulary Learning and Teaching

11. Tomoko Ishii: The Role of Visual Imagery in Semantic Clustering

12. Suhad Sonbul and Marijana Macis: The Deliberate Learning of L2-L1 Word Lists: Effectiveness and Learners' Perceptions

13. Ron Martinez: A Student-Generated Vocabulary Syllabus in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Context

Conclusion

14. Pawel Szudarski and Samuel Barclay: Looking Back and Moving Forward in Vocabulary Studies

Zoltán Dörnyei: Afterword

Appendix

Index