A reflection of the current empirical research on L2 vocabulary acquisition in China—A survey of the pertinent papers published in China s 9 major linguistic journals in the past 12 years;

In the past thirty years, L2 vocabulary acquisition has become one of the hottest areas of SLA.

This study explores the role of reading in L2 vocabulary acquisition, and the effect of different vocabulary instructional techniques on the vocabulary learning of Chinese university ESL students of different levels.

Starting with the model of the three stages of second language vocabulary acquisition in psycholinguistics,a pilot test is carried on,and the cause of Chinglish is explored on the study of three typical phenomena,which are false friends, collocation errors and cryptomorphic unauthentic phenomenon.

The transfer of L1 in the process of second language vocabulary acquisition is unavoidable.

The present study investigates native language transfer in Chinese college students second language vocabulary acquisition.

The integration of form with meaning by L2 learners in learning L2 words is referred to as form-meaning mapping in L2 lexical acquisition(L2FM),which is uniquely complicated due to the special nature of L2 acquisition.