Table of Contents

I SETTING THE STAGE; 1 Historical Trends in Second Language Vocabulary Instruction by Dr. Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman; 2 The Lexical Plight in L2 Reading by Dr. Batia Laufer; 3 The Role of Orthography in Word Perception and Acquisition by Dr. Keiko Koda; II CASE STUDIES; 4 Vocabulary and Comprehension by Dr. Kate Parry; 5 Oral Production of Vocabulary by Dr. Roann Altman; 6 Reading and Vocabulary Development in a Second Language by Dr. William Grabe & Fredricka L. Stoller; III EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; 7 Tracking the Acquisition of L2 Vocabulary by Dr. Lynne Yang; 8 Rare words, Complex Lexical Units, and the Advanced Learner by Dr. Pierre Arnaud; 9 Vocabulary Enhancement Activities and Reading for Meaning in Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition by Dr. T. Sima Paribakht & Dr. Marjorie Wesche; IV PEDAGOGY; 10 Mnemonic methods in foreign-language vocabulary learning by Dr. Jan Hulstijn; 11 Teaching Vocabulary in L2 through Extensive Reading by Dr. James Coady; 12 Teaching Vocabulary by Paul Nation and Jonathan Newton; 13 Pedagogical implications of the Lexical Approach by Michael Lewis; V SUMMING UP; 14 L2 Vocabulary Acquisition: A Rationale for Pedagogy by James Coady

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A collection of articles on direct and indirect second language vocabulary acquisition.