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SUMMARY:The first hours of second language acquisition: How do French nati
 ve speakers perceive\, comprehend and parse the Polish speech stream? - Re
 bekah Rast\, American University of Paris and UMR 7023 (CNRS &amp\; Univer
 sité Paris 8)
DTSTART:20100209T160000Z
DTEND:20100209T173000Z
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CONTACT:Chris Cummins
DESCRIPTION:A fundamental challenge for research focusing on the processin
 g of second or target language (TL) input is identifying what elements in 
 the input are perceived and processed by the learner\, and how they are pr
 ocessed.  One central problem for researchers conducting empirical studies
  in this area is the controlling and measuring of the linguistic input to 
 which learners are exposed.  Another is identifying what elements of this 
 linguistic exposure are "taken in" by the learner.  In fact\, few studies 
 have systematically tested how much and what kind of exposure is needed to
  significantly improve the perceptual activity of an adult language learne
 r.\n\nThis paper presents a study in which the TL input provided to our le
 arners (French learners of Polish) from the moment of first exposure were 
 controlled and documented\, allowing for a quantitative comparison of our 
 learners' performance in Polish on a given task with the total input recei
 ved.  Learners were tested at initial exposure\, then at various intervals
  up to 8 hours of exposure.\n\nOur results show that through such a compar
 ison\, we gain a better understanding of how some TL input becomes part of
  the learner's language system and some does not\, and of why a learner pe
 rceived\, comprehended and/or parsed a particular input item at a given ti
 me.
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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