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College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Valerie Lambert

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Associate Professor of French Applied Linguistics and Director of Graduate Programs

Director of Graduate Programs, World Languages and Cultures

Department of World Languages and Cultures

Withers Hall 215

Bio

Current Research and Pedagogical Projects 

  • Syntactic Variation in L1-L2-L3 Acquisition (English, Spanish, French) with Dr. Sara Zahler
  • L2 French Pronunciation RX Website with Dr. Laura Call and Dr. Tatiana Kozhanova (October 2024 launch)
  • Using French Comic Books to Increase Instructed L2 French Learners’ Proficiency with Dr. Tatiana Kozhanova
  • L2 Spanish Learners’ Attitudes towards Gender-Inclusive Language with Olivia Frost

SPRING 2025 OFFICE HOURS:

Tuesdays 1:30-3p; Wednesdays 2-3:30p or by appointment 

 Zoom Office Hours Link: https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/3522030877

Office: Withers Hall, Room #215

Education

B.Ed. French and English University of Alberta 1998

M.A. Applied Linguistics University of Alberta 2000

Ph.D. French Languages, Literatures and Linguistics University of Alberta 2006

Area(s) of Expertise

Graduate Level Teaching: Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Pedagogy, Research Methods, Variationist Sociolinguistics, Translation

Expertise in instructed L2 French acquisition of object pronouns (clitics); past tense and aspect; grammatical gender; future tense

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