Notes on Contributors \ Acknowledgments \ Part 1: The Second Language Acquisition Landscape \ 1. Second Language Acquisition: the landscape, the scholarship and the reader, Ernesto Macaro (University of Oxford, UK) \ 2. A compendium of key concepts in second language acquisition, Ernesto Macaro, Robert Vanderplank and Victoria Murphy (Oxford University Language Centre and University of Oxford, UK) \ 3. Research methods in second language acquisition, Andrew D. Cohen and Ernesto Macaro (University of Minnesota, USA and University of Oxford, UK) \ Part 2: Issues and Relationships in Second Language Acquisition \ 4. The relationship between first and second language acquisition revisited, Vivian Cook (Newcastle University, UK) \ 5. The relationship between age of learning and type of linguistic exposure in children learning a second language, Victoria A. Murphy (University of Oxford, UK) \ 6. The relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge and L2 vocabulary use, Paul Meara (University of Wales Swansea, UK) \ 7. The relationship between L2 input and L2 output, Susan Gass (Michigan State University, USA) \ 8. The relationship between pedagogical focus and interaction in L2 lessons, Paul Seedhouse (Newcastle University, UK) \ 9. The relationship between language aptitude and language learning motivation: individual differences from a dynamic systems perspective, Zoltán Dörnyei (University of Nottingham, UK) \ 10. The relationship between strategic behaviour and language learning success, Ernesto Macaro (University of Oxford, UK) \ Conclusions, Ernesto Macaro, (University of Oxford, UK) \ References \ Index