Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing

✍ Scribed by Rebekah Rast

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 277
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive study of the starting point of SLA. With its focus on the language input that learners receive and what they do with this input, the study sheds light on questions, such as what knowledge is brought to the acquisition process and how learners use this knowledge to process new linguistic information.

✦ Table of Contents

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

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