After writing EFL course-books, Vivian Cook  concentrated on linguistics and language learning in books such as Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Second Language Learning and Language Teaching. His current interest is developing the concept of multi-competence and applying it to the design of language teaching materials. He was founding President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA).

• Acknowledgements Contributors 1 Vivian Cook: Background to the L2 User2 Annette de Groot: Lexical Representation and Lexical Processing in the L2 User3 Roy Major: The Phonology of the L2 User4 Suzanne Flynn and Barbara Lust: A Minimalist Approach to L2 Solves a Dilemma of UG5 Clive Perdue: Development of L2 Functional Use6 Ellen Bialystok: Cognitive Processes of L2 Users7 Fred Genesee: Portrait of the Bilingual Child8 Franco Fabbro: The Neurolinguistics of L2 Users9 Jean-Marc Dewaele: Individual Differences in L2 Fluency: The Effect of Neurobiological Correlates10 Kees de Bot and Madeleine Hulsen: Language Attrition: Tests, Self-assessments and Perceptions11 Aneta Pavlenko: Poststructuralist Approaches to the Study of Social Factors in Second Language Learning and Use12 Francisco Gomes de Matos: Second Language Learners’ Rights13 Vivian Cook: Language Teaching Methodology and the L2 User PerspectiveIndex

After writing EFL course-books, Vivian Cook  concentrated on linguistics and language learning in books such as Chomsky's Universal Grammar and Second Language Learning and Language Teaching. His current interest is developing the concept of multi-competence and applying it to the design of language teaching materials. He was founding President of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA).

• Acknowledgements Contributors 1 Vivian Cook: Background to the L2 User2 Annette de Groot: Lexical Representation and Lexical Processing in the L2 User3 Roy Major: The Phonology of the L2 User4 Suzanne Flynn and Barbara Lust: A Minimalist Approach to L2 Solves a Dilemma of UG5 Clive Perdue: Development of L2 Functional Use6 Ellen Bialystok: Cognitive Processes of L2 Users7 Fred Genesee: Portrait of the Bilingual Child8 Franco Fabbro: The Neurolinguistics of L2 Users9 Jean-Marc Dewaele: Individual Differences in L2 Fluency: The Effect of Neurobiological Correlates10 Kees de Bot and Madeleine Hulsen: Language Attrition: Tests, Self-assessments and Perceptions11 Aneta Pavlenko: Poststructuralist Approaches to the Study of Social Factors in Second Language Learning and Use12 Francisco Gomes de Matos: Second Language Learners’ Rights13 Vivian Cook: Language Teaching Methodology and the L2 User PerspectiveIndex