Input Matters in SLA

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Input matters in SLA is essential reading for those who are in the field of SLA research and will also be useful for teachers of SL/FL, since input continues to be one of the most discussed areas in SLA. -- Julia Baron, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain The volume constitutes a major contribution to the understanding of the role of input in L2 acquisition, and especially in L2 phonology, an area where input has not been investigated systematically. I think that L2 researchers and graduate students will find this volume quite appealing and would consider it a required reading for anyone planning to undertake research projects on L2 input. -- Monica Cabrera, Loyola Marymount University, USA * Linguist List 20.4070 * This book has the great merit of appealing to quite different kinds of reader. To delve into technically complex issues, second language researchers had to part company some time ago with the more practically oriented world of language pedagogy. Without understanding what happens in people's minds when they process what they are exposed to, we cannot make real progress in shaping efficient learning programmes but still we really need books like this one to bring issues of theory and issues of practice together. Input Matters covers a diversity of topics. Part 1 deals with more general issues and features some key players in the history of input studies, notably Stephen Krashen and Bill VanPatten. Kees de Bot and colleagues also provide a fresh new way of looking at how input is organised in the mind, providing diversity as well as depth to this first part of the book. Part 2, also featuring prominent researchers, focusses on phonology so speech input is the dominant theme. This book will have great appeal to theorists and practitioners alike. -- Mike Sharwood Smith, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK This book has the great merit of appealing to quite different kinds of reader. This book will have great appeal to theorists and practitioners alike. -- Mike Sharwood Smith, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK