Chapter 1: Vocabulary teaching and learning: Introduction and overview - Ruben Chacon-Beltran, Christian Abello-Contesse, M. del Mar Torreblanca-Lopez
Section 1: Development of a model for vocabulary teaching and learning
Chapter 2: Form-focused instruction in second language vocabulary learning -Batia Laufer
Chapter 3: Key issues in teaching and learning vocabulary - Norbert Schmitt
Chapter 4: A dynamic perspective on (academic English) L2 lexical development - Tal Caspi and Wander Lowie
Section 2: Empirical studies on lexical processing in English and Spanish
Chapter 5: The effect of lexicalization in the native language on L2 lexical inferencing: A cross-linguistic study - Sima Paribakht
Chapter 6: Aural word recognition and oral competence in a foreign language - James Milton, Jo Wade and Nicola Hopkins
Chapter 7: A cascade model of lexical access and the phonological activation of newly-acquired lexical items - Teresa Lopez-Soto
Chapter 8: Concordances versus dictionaries: Evaluating the learning effect - Rachel Allan
Chapter 9: Evidence of incremental vocabulary learning in advanced L2 Spanish learners - Diana Frantzen
Section 3: Materials design and strategies for vocabulary teaching and learning
Chapter 10: Conspicuous by their absence: The infrequency of very frequent words in English as a foreign language (EFL) textbooks - James Lawley
Chapter 11: The treatment of lexical aspects in commercial textbooks for L2 teaching and learning - Maria Dolores Lopez-Jimenez
Chapter 12: A second-generation CALL vocabulary-learning programme "ADELEX": In search of a psychopedagogic model - Carmen Perez Basanta
Chapter 13: Word associations as a vocabulary teaching strategy in an advanced L2 reading class - Zorana Vasiljevic