It has been more than a decade since the publication of Paul Nation's Teachingand learning vocabulary (1990), which brought together the findings in lexical acquisitionand teaching at the time and has been an invaluable reference and guide to many in the field.However, after years of neglect, vocabulary acquisition has finally come into its own with anexplosion of attention and new research, creating a need for an update. Just in time comesNorbert Schmitt's Vocabulary in language teaching (VLT) in theCambridge Language Education Series.