Rebekah RastRebekah Rast is Professor of English and Linguistics at the American University of Paris, where she also holds the position of Director of Teaching, Learning and Faculty Development. A member of the French research group Structures Formelles du Lngage and a country coordinator of the VILLA project, she is the author of Foreign Language Input: Initial Processing (Multilingual Matters), co-editor with ZhaoHong Han of First Exposure to a Second Language: Learners' Initial Input Processing (Cambridge University Press), and author of numerous book chapters and articles on the initial stages of second / foreign language acquisition. Read More Read Less