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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
  • Visually-enhanced Input in Teaching Grammatical Gender in L2 Spanish with. Dr. Sara Zahler, Carlos Dominguez-Diaz & Sarah Rowe
  • L2 French Pronunciation RX Website/App with Dr. Laura Call and Dr. Tatiana Kozhanova (DELTA Grant Fall 2025)
  • Perception and Production of English “th” grapheme by English Language Learners (Graduate Student: Ciara McArthur; Co-director with Dr. Becca Ronquest)
  • The Role of Instructional Design in Online ESL Vocabulary Instruction (Graduate Student: Jocelyn Hughes)
  • Story-Based Input in L2 Spanish Past Tense Acquisition (Graduate Student: Alondra Torres-Ornelas)

Latest Publication

  • Bonté gracieuse! Il est, n’est-il pas?”: La BD comme support motivant pour faire progresser les apprenants sur l’échelle ACTFL with Dr. Tatiana Kozhanova (The French Review, December 2025, 99(2), pp. 15-36)

Recent Presentations

  • Matching, Mismatching, and Misfiring: Gender Agreement in L2 and L3 French Learners with Dr. Sara Zahler (SLRF, September 2025)
  • Not All Nouns Are Created Equal: Evidence for Usage-Based Grammatical Gender Acquisition in L2 Spanish with Dr. Sara Zahler (Hispanic Linguistics Symposium, November 2025)

Forthcoming Articles

  • ¿Y les estudiantxs?: Student Perceptions of Gender-Inclusive Languages in the L2 Spanish Classroom with Olivia Frost (in press, Hispania, June 2026)

FALL 2025 OFFICE HOURS:

Tuesdays 3:15-5:15p; Thursdays 10-11a 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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