Edited by Camilla Bardel,
Christina Lindqvist and Batia Laufer
Eurosla Monographs
Series, 2 (2013).
ISBN 978-1-300-88407-1
This book is
intended
for researchers and students in the field of second language (L2)
acquisition. As its title suggests, the book discusses L2 vocabulary
acquisition, knowledge and use, and examines them from the perspectives
of assessment and corpus analysis. The chapters also address some
additional central research issues: the role of word frequency in the
input, the difference between single words and multi-word units, and
the distinction between vocabulary of oral and written language. The
first three chapters of the book present critical reviews of different
aspects of vocabulary acquisition. The other four chapters contain
empirical studies that relate to the central themes of the book. The
data in the studies draw on a variety of source and target languages:
English, French, Italian, Swedish, Hebrew and Japanese. The book offers
some new insights into the field of vocabulary and suggests avenues of
research.
