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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

Research Publications

  • Wust, V., & Roche, C. (2015). The impact of form-focused instruction & awareness activities on L2 learners’ acquisition of grammatical gender in French. The French Review 88 (3): 37-52. 
  • Wust, V., & Book Brown, B. (2012). Teaching the imparfait and passé composé in French: New findings on sequence. The Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching 3 (2): 285-310.
  • (2010). L2 French Learner’s Processing of Object Clitics: Data from the Classroom. L2 Journal 2 (1): 45-72.
  • (2010). Pronominalization in French: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice”. The Journal of Linguistics and language Teaching 1 (1): 75-110.
  • (2009). A la recherche des clitiques perdus: The Dictogloss as a Measure of the Comprehension of y and en by L2 learners of French. The Canadian Modern Language Review 65 (3): 471-499.
  • (2009). Review of Fanny Forsberg’s 2008 book “Le langage préfabriqué: Formes, fonctions et fréquences en français parlé L2 et L1”. The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics 12 (2): 84-85.

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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