The Author: David Hirsh is a lecturer in TESOL at the University of Sydney. His main research areas are vocabulary development, second language assessment, and academic adjustment. His research has appeared in Reading in a Foreign Language and Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, and in the volumes Teaching Academic Writing and the Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. He is associate editor of the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

• Contents: Academic vocabulary – Theoretical contributions to a functional framework – A functional framework for classifying academic word use – Sections of a biomedical research article – Biomedical research articles – Research articles across subject areas – Textbook chapters across subject areas – Comparison of journal and newspaper texts – Carrier words.

«En definitiva, la obra de Hirsh tiene una gran utilidad potencial para todos los profesores de inglés con fines académicos puesto que permite conocer de forma fiable qué vocabulario académico tiene más relevancia de acuerdo con las diferentes disciplinas y géneros analizados (...).» (Izaskun Elorza, Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas)