Coins the term lexical facility to analyse second language performer differences
Establishes a consistent framework to measure size and retrieval speed of vocabulary
Creates a new method of analysis to measure second language performance

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Michael Harrington teaches in the postgraduate program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He publishes in second language acquisition, second language lexical and cognitive processes, and testing and assessment.

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• Chapter 1. Size as a dimension of L2 Vocabulary Skill.- Chapter 2. Measuring Recognition Vocabulary Size.- Chapter 3. Word recognition skill as an aspect of L2 vocabulary knowledge.- Chapter 4. Lexical Facility: Bringing size and speed together.- Chapter 5. Measuring lexical facility.- Chapter 6. Lexical Facility as an index of L2 Proficiency.- Chapter 7. Lexical Facility and Academic English Proficiency.- Chapter 8. Lexical Facility and IELTS performance.- Chapter 9. Lexical Facility and Language Program Placement.- Chapter 10. Lexical Facility and academic performance in English.- Chapter 11. The effect of Lexical Facility.- Chapter 12. The future of Lexical Facility