Valerie Lambert
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
L1-L2-L3 Syntactic Variation
Withers Hall 215
[email protected]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 2025-26; 2026-27)
Latest Publications
- 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)
- ¿Y les estudiantxs?: Student Perceptions of Gender-Inclusive Languages in the L2 Spanish Classroom with Olivia Frost (Hispania, June 2026, 109(2), pp. 217-238).
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
FALL 2026 OFFICE HOURS:
Wednesdays 12-3p 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