In this article we review experimental and intervention studies published since 2004 on
formulaic sequences in a second language (L2). There is plenty of evidence that learners …

The last 30 years or so have witnessed the flourishing of much scholarly work on the
association between learners' vocabulary knowledge and their language proficiency. A …

Abstract The Vocabulary Levels Test (;) indicates the word frequency level that should be
used to select words for learning. The present study involves the development and …

Research has begun to demonstrate that L2 words can be learned incidentally through
watching audio-visual materials. Although there are a large number of studies that have …

This study set out to investigate the relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge (VK) and
second-language (L2) reading/listening comprehension. More than 100 individual studies …

This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-
word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American …

This study used a pretest-posttest-delayed posttest design at one-week intervals to
determine the extent to which written, audio, and audiovisual L2 input contributed to …

The book overviews a wide range of vocabulary research methodologies, and offers
practical advice on how to carry out valid and reliable research on first and second language …

Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first
and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching …

Most research on L2 reading comprehension has indicated that 98 per cent lexical coverage
provides adequate comprehension of written text. This figure has been transferred to …