Vocabulary Learning in the Wild

Barry Lee Reynolds , Ph.D. is Associate Professor of English Language Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Macau, Macau SAR, China. He has taught English language and trained English language teachers at thirteen institutions in the USA, Taiwan, and Macau. He has received institutional teaching, research, and outstanding staff awards. His vocabulary research has focused on incidental learning from reading novels, playing video games, text reconstruction, and listening to academic lectures. He has also conducted vocabulary studies on word card use, reader choice, lexical coverage, contextual richness, perception, extramural engagement, and metacognition, among others. In addition to having edited several journal special issues, his most recent edited volumes include Innovative Approaches in Teaching English Writing to Chinese Speakers (2021, De Gruyter Mouton) and English Literacy Instruction for Chinese Speakers (2019, Palgrave). He also serves as an editorial board member for several journals and is a Section Editor for Open Linguistics (De Gruyter Mouton).