Background to the second language user perspective / Vivian Cook.- Lexical representation and lexical processing in the second language user / Annette de Groot.- The phonology of the second language user / Roy Major.- A minimalist approach to the second language solves a dilemma of universal grammar / Suzanne Flynn and Barbara Lust.- Development of second language functional use / Clive Perdue.- Cognitive processes of second language users / Ellen Bialystok.- Portrait of the bilingual child / Fred Genesee.- The neurolinguistics of bilingual language users / Franco Fabbro.- Individual differences on second language fluency / Jean-Marc Dewaele.- Language attrition: tests / Kees de Bot and Madeleine Hulsen.- Poststructuralist approaches to the study of social factors in second language learning and use / Aneta Pavlenko.- Second language learner's rights / Francisco Gomes-da-Matos.- Language teaching methodology and the L2 user perspective / Vivian Cook.