Averil Coxhead is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

"By bringing together work in such diverse areas and emphasising a range of research approaches and foci, Coxhead gives us a birds-eye view of the ¿eld which both enables broader patterns to emerge and will provide most readers with new insights and inspiration."- Philip Durrant, University of Exeter, TESOL Quarterly

• Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Approaches to identifying specialised vocabulary for ESP Chapter Three: The role and value of word list research for ESP Chapter Four: Multi-word units and metaphor in ESP Chapter Five: Specialised vocabulary in secondary school/middle school Chapter Six: Pre-university, undergraduate and postgraduate vocabulary Chapter Seven: Specialised vocabulary research and the professions Chapter Eight: Vocabulary in the trades Chapter Nine: Vocabulary research and ESP: Curriculum, classroom tasks and materials design and testing Chapter Ten: Future directions and conclusion

Averil Coxhead is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

"By bringing together work in such diverse areas and emphasising a range of research approaches and foci, Coxhead gives us a birds-eye view of the ¿eld which both enables broader patterns to emerge and will provide most readers with new insights and inspiration."- Philip Durrant, University of Exeter, TESOL Quarterly

• Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Approaches to identifying specialised vocabulary for ESP Chapter Three: The role and value of word list research for ESP Chapter Four: Multi-word units and metaphor in ESP Chapter Five: Specialised vocabulary in secondary school/middle school Chapter Six: Pre-university, undergraduate and postgraduate vocabulary Chapter Seven: Specialised vocabulary research and the professions Chapter Eight: Vocabulary in the trades Chapter Nine: Vocabulary research and ESP: Curriculum, classroom tasks and materials design and testing Chapter Ten: Future directions and conclusion

Averil Coxhead is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

"By bringing together work in such diverse areas and emphasising a range of research approaches and foci, Coxhead gives us a birds-eye view of the ¿eld which both enables broader patterns to emerge and will provide most readers with new insights and inspiration."- Philip Durrant, University of Exeter, TESOL Quarterly

• Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Approaches to identifying specialised vocabulary for ESP Chapter Three: The role and value of word list research for ESP Chapter Four: Multi-word units and metaphor in ESP Chapter Five: Specialised vocabulary in secondary school/middle school Chapter Six: Pre-university, undergraduate and postgraduate vocabulary Chapter Seven: Specialised vocabulary research and the professions Chapter Eight: Vocabulary in the trades Chapter Nine: Vocabulary research and ESP: Curriculum, classroom tasks and materials design and testing Chapter Ten: Future directions and conclusion