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All 12 chapters, the preface, and list of publications were specially prepared for this volume and relate to the work of Granger and colleagues, based at the Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL) of the Université Catholique de Louvain. The chapters cover a wide range of language-acquisition issues, mainly from a corpus linguistics perspective.

The most practical chapters directly associate corpus findings with languagelearning contexts. By combining collocations and concgrams—that is, not necessarily contiguous lexical bundles—that can include fine or general part-of-speech labels as placeholders, Wible and Tsao present a corpus-based tool called StringNet (Wible & Tsao, 2012) that they claim can directly assist learners by presenting them with emergent networks of meaning-based lexical bundles. For