David Hirsh is Associate Professor in TESOL at the University of Sydney, where he teaches on the Master of Education (TESOL) degree program and supervises doctoral students in the area of TESOL. His research in the area of vocabulary studies has appeared in Reading in a Foreign Language and Revue Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee. He is co-editor of the University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

• David Hirsh: Introduction – Hua Flora Zhong: Partial Vocabulary Knowledge of Young English as Foreign Language Learners – Xuan Wang: How Is Vocabulary Knowledge Related to Reading Ability in a Second Language Context? – Warren Matsuok/David Hirsh: The Specialised Vocabulary of High School Science –Chen-Chun Lin: Metalinguistic Knowledge of Morphology and Orthography in L2 Word Learning – Hua Flora Zhong/David Hirsh: Difficulty Level of Word Aspects: An Exploratory Study of Development Hierarchy of Vocabulary Acquisition – Apisak Sukying: Investigating Receptive and Productive Affix Knowledge in EFL Learners – Yuko Yamashita: Experts on Language Learning: The Shaping of Children’s Speech Development During the First Two Years of Life Through Universal and Language-specific Characteristics – Notes on Contributors