Peter GolatoPeter Golato is an Associate Professor of French and SLATE (Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as co-director of the French Basic Language Program from 1999-2004. He olds a Ph.D. in French Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research and publications have focused on word segmentation, the morphological and syntactic processing of French, and the influence of pragmatic knowledge on first- and second-language sentence processing. He teaches courses on second language acquisition theory, foreign language teaching methodology, applied linguistics, and French linguistics. PhD, University of Texas at Austin Read More Read Less