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L2 vocabulary: Perspectives on teaching, learning, testing, and formulaic sequences - I. S. P. Nation (2001). Learning vocabulary in another language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv + 477. ISBN 13 978-0-521-80498-1 (pbk). - I. S. P. Nation (2008). Teaching vocabulary: Strategies and techniques. Boston, MA: Heinle. Pp. xiii + 222. ISBN 13 978-1-4240-0565-9 (pbk). - John Read (2000). Assessing vocabulary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. xiv + 279. ISBN 0-521-62741-9 (pbk). - Norbert Schmitt (ed.) (2004). Formulaic sequences: Acquisition, processing and use. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. ix + 303. ISBN 90-272-1708-4 (pbk).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2009

Stuart Webb*
Affiliation:
Victoria University of Wellington, New [email protected]

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