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L2 learners of English need to learn a large amount of vocabulary to read authentic texts and to communicate in the target language. Schmitt (2008) suggests that L2 learners are required to know 2000-3000 word families to understand spoken English, and 6000-7000 word families to cover 98% of texts. Because of the limited time for which L2 learners are exposed to the target language, to gain the enough amount of vocabulary is not a piece of cake. Along with broadening vocabulary size, L2 learners are required to deepen their vocabulary knowledge. Vocabulary knowledge includes the different aspects of word knowledge such as grammatical features, word associations, register constraints, syntactic features, and so on. In this regard, how effectively should vocabulary be taught and tested has been the center of the research of vocabulary acquisition. In the present paper, several issues in learning L2 vocabulary knowledge and pedagogy are mentioned.
