Longitudinal Developments in Vocabulary Knowledge and Lexical Organization

This research monograph helps demonstrates how language learners acquire vocabulary in instructed foreign language contexts and in English for Academic Purposes programs in the target language environment. Based on the findings of a series of longitudinal studies assessing the depth of EFL students' mental lexicons, the authors suggest a solid evidence-based approach to teaching vocabulary.

Brigitta Dóczi is Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She has extensive experience in teacher training, while still actively teaching English as a foreign language. She has created a wide variety of teaching materials and co-authored language teaching coursebooks in Hungary. Her main fields of interest are second language vocabulary development as well as task-based teaching and materials design.

Judit Kormos is Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Lancaster University. She has published widely on the topics of individual differences in language learning and the cognitive processes of using and acquiring additional languages. She is also renown for her research and teacher training activities on teaching languages to students with specific learning differences.