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The book contains studies on L2 lexical processes based on empirical findings by authors mostly from Central Europe. Questions of integration, storage, vocabulary acquisition and assessment, word retrieval and lexical access are the focus of the studies, which include reference to language users from Finno-Ugric and Slavic language backgrounds.
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Zsolt Lengyel is a professor at the University of Pannonia, Veszprém, a part time professor at the University of Pécs and a visiting professor at Zagreb University, Croatia. He took his MA in Hungarian, Russian philology and Applied linguistics at Debrecen University, Hungary. He received PhD in developmental psycholinguistics. He was given Brassai Sámuel Award in 2002. His research interests include language development of Hungarian children, development of literacy before schooling, bilingual education in the kindergarten, word associations of 10-14 year old children and students of 18-24 years of age. He has written numerous articles, books on the mentioned topics. He is editor, member of editorial boards of several applied linguistics journals both in Hungary and abroad. Judit Navracsics took her MA degree in Russian at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in English at University of Pannonia, Veszprém, her Ph.D. degree at Pécs University. She is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Linguistics, at the University of Pannonia. She is Secretary of Applied Linguistics Branch of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, her habilitation is underway. She does research into bi- and multilingualism. She is the author and editor of books and papers on childhood bi- and trilingualism, the psycholinguistic aspects of multilingualism, early second language acquisition and the bilingual mental lexicon.
