This annotated bibliography lists research published between 1960 and 1980 in the field of vocabulary acquisition and word handling in a second language. The bibliography is divided into two sections. The first contains 280 entries listed alphabetically. A short abstract is provided for each entry. The second section is a supplementary bibliography that lists works that are less central to the concern of the bibliography. No abstract is provided for these entries. A glossary of terms, a subject index, and a language index are appended. (JL)