Tools for Researching Vocabulary

This is a book that is of great value to researchers interested in vocabulary. The programs described in the book are highly innovative and imaginative. The questions that the programs are designed to answer lie at the heart of language learning and assessment, and the programs strikingly represent the designers thinking outside the box.

-- Paul Nation, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Meara and Miralpeix provide a rich collection of clearly explained, user-friendly, web-based applications for students and investigators interested in L2 vocabulary research. The reprinted articles, historical commentaries and accompanying reflections offer novel and stimulating ideas that many researchers will want to build on. I highly recommend this valuable resource.

-- Norman Segalowitz, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada

Tools for Researching Vocabulary’, has successfully provided a timely contribution to the area of L2 vocabulary acquisition. There is no doubt that this book is a valuable reference for final year undergraduates and master students in Applied Linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and testing. This book is also useful for PhD students who have little background knowledge of the tools for researching vocabulary but would like to work in this field. 

-- Thi Ngoc Yen Dang, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand * LINGUIST List 28.3263 *

This book provides an invaluable resource for researchers who are interested in the field of vocabulary research. It is extremely user-friendly and introduces the objectives of eleven such programs, along with clear instructions on how to
implement them.

-- Michael James Davies, Ritsumeikan University, Japan * System 66 (2017) *

In sum, this book more than lives up to its promise. It provides young researchers with a range of ideas and the tools to start exploring them. At the same time it is a thorough introduction to the issues involved in vocabulary research, and takes a critical look at both issues and tools. And although I probably no longer qualify as a novice researcher - age forbids - I still find that it opens up a wealth of new perspectives and ideas for research.

-- Paul Pauwels, University of Leuven, Belgium * BAAL News, Issue 111, Summer 20