Foreign Language Input : : Initial Processing / / Rebekah Rast.

Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing presents the most comprehensive study to date of the starting point of second language acquisition. Its focus is on the language input that learners receive and what they actually do with this input. The empirical study detailed in the book follows a method...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Second Language Acquisition
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: Theoretical Preliminaries
  • Chapter 1. Input and Intake Revisited
  • Chapter 2. First Exposure Studies
  • Part 2: The Study
  • Chapter 3. Polish-French Contrastive Analysis
  • Chapter 4. Research Methodology
  • Chapter 5. The Adult’s Available Knowledge at First Exposure to an Unknown Language
  • Chapter 6. Case Studies: Two Learners with Similar Linguistic Profiles
  • Chapter 7. Speech Perception
  • Chapter 8. Speech Comprehension
  • Chapter 9. Grammatical Analysis
  • Chapter 10. Concluding Remarks
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Appendix 4
  • Appendix 5
  • References
  • Index