Foreign Language Input

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.

Rebekah Rast teaches English and Linguistics at The American University of Paris. She has published in the field of second and third language acquisition and conducts research in collaboration with the interdisciplinary CNRS research team Language, Cognition et Développement (UMR 7023), based at the Université Paris VIII. Her research interests include second and additional language acquisition, as well as the interface between language acquisition and teaching.