施密特等编著的《词汇(描述习得与教学)/外语教学法丛书》收集了在词汇研究领域颇有建树的十七位专家撰写的十五篇论文。分“描述部分”、“习得部分”、“教学部分”三个板块，并对每个部分中每篇论文的观点及其所涉及的具体领域的研究状况和发展前景进行了精辟的分析和评论。

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Vocabulary and description

 1.1 Vocabulary size, text coverage and word lists

 1.2 Written and spoken vocabulary

 1.3 Vocabulary connections: multi-word items in English

 1.4 On the role of context in first- and second-language vocabulary learning

 1.5 Receptive vs. productive aspects of vocabulary

 1.6 Editors' comments- description section

Part 2 Vocabulary and acquisition

 2.1 Towards a new approach to modelling vocabulary acquisition

 2.2 Vocabulary acquisition: word structure, collocation, word-class, and meaning

 2.3 What's in a word that makes it hard or easy: some intralexical factors that affect the learning of words

 2.4 The influence of the mother tongue on second language vocabulary acquisition and use

 2.5 Learning the orthographical form of Lz vocabulary - a receptive and a productive process

 2.6 Vocabulary learning strategies

 2.7 Editors' comments-acquisition section

Part 3 The pedagogical context

 3.1 Current trends in teaching second language vocabulary

 3.2 Incorporating vocabulary into the syllabus

 3.3 Vocabulary reference works in foreign language learning

 3.4 Vocabulary and testing

 3.5 Editors' comments - pedagogy section

Glossary

References

Author index

Content index