Most of the contributions that have been selected for this volume are papers that were presented at the Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition Colloquium, which took place at Leiden University in March 2002, and which was organised under the auspices of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) by the editors of this book. This Colloquium was sponsored by the University of Haifa, the Universiteit Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL), the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF), and the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world's leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and teaching, or the testing of vocabulary knowledge in foreign languages. This book is intended as an up-to-date overview of the important domain of the lexicon for researchers in the field of second language acquisition,teacher trainers and professional teachers of second or foreign languages.

Introduction

Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer

Selection

CHAPTER 1

A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus

Paul Nation

CHAPTER 2

IS there room for an academic word list in French？

Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst

CHAPTER 3

Vocabulary coverage according to spoken discourse context

Svenja Adolphs and Norbert Schmitt

Acquisition

CHAPTER 4

Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning idioms

Frank Boers, Murielle Demecheleer, and June Eyckmans

CHAPTER 5

Receptive, productive, and receptive + productive L2 vocabulary

learning: what difference does it make？

Jan-Arjen Mondria and Boukje Wiersma

CHAPTER 6

Semantic transfer and development in adult L2 vocabulary acquisition

Nan Jiang

CHAPTER 7

Individual differences in the use of colloquial vocabulary:

The effects of sociobiographical and psychological factors

Jean-Marc Dewaele

CHAPTER 8

Second language lexical inferencing: Preferences, perceptions, and

practices

David.D. Qian

Testing

CHAPTER 9

The relation between lexical richness and vocabulary size in Dutch

L1 and L2 children

Anne Vermeer

CHAPTER 10

The construction and validation of a deep word knowledge test for

advanced learners of French

Tine Greidanus, Paul Bogaards, Elisabeth van der Linden,

Lydius Nienhuis, and Torn de Wolf

CHAPTER 11

Plumbing the depths: How should the construct of vocabulary

knowledge be defined？

John Read

List of contributors

Index