Dr Cécile Laval
Undergraduate Courses
French 1
Applied Linguistics
Europe Without Borders: Cultures in Contact
Cosmopolitics
Language and Culture: Europe and Beyond
Postgraduate Courses
The Use of ICT in Language Learning
Second Language Acquisition
Programme Leader for International Studies BA Hons and French Coordinator
Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and French
Recent Publications
Tel: 020 8331 9049
Email: c.laval@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 331
Office Hours
Wednesday 2 - 3 pm
Qualifications
PhD Applied Linguistics
MA in Management of Language Learning
Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Foreign Languages
BA in Teaching French as a Foreign Language (University of Grenoble - France)
BTS International Business
Cécile Laval is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Internation Studies and French. She is Programme Leader for International Studies and teaches on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, second language instruction, French and International Studies.
Research Interests
Dr Cécile Laval is an academic scholar in the area of second language acquisition theories, second language teaching and applied linguistics, with a particular interest in input processing and processing instruction. She is also interested in the use of ICT for independent language learning and the development of e-learning materials for language teaching.
She has given invited conference papers and guest lectures in universities in the UK, the USA, Greece and France.
She has been directing an enterprise project called "Games Challenge Language & Culture Awareness Training" in French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese tailored for Games volunteers and designed to develop their second language skills to prepare for, participate in and contribute to the 2012 Games.
Publications
Laval, C. (2008) Secondary and Cumulative Effects in Attaining L2 Proficiency in the Classroom: The Acquisition of French. In Alessandro G. Benati (ed.) Issues in Second Language Proficiency (pp.189-201). Continuum
Laval, C (2008) From Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of French Imparfait to Secondary Transfer-of-Training Effects on French subjunctive and to Cumulative Transfer-of-Training Effect with French Causative Constructions. In Alessandro G. Benati and James F. Lee Grammar Acquisition and Processing Instruction Secondary and Cumulative Effects (pp.121-157). Multilingual Matters.
Laval, C (2011) Secondary and Cumulative Transfer-of Training Effects of Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of French as a second Language. In Lee, Wong and Leeser Advances in Processing Instruction. Benjamins Publishing.
In preparation
Laval, C (2012) The age factor on the Primary, Secondary and Cumulative Transfer-of-Training Effects of Processing Instruction on the Acquisition of French as a second language.In Benati, A, & Lee, J. Individual differences and processing instruction. London: Equinox.
Symposium RIPSYDEVE 30 - 31 May 2011 « Développements et Variabilités »
Université Européenne de Bretagne, Rennes 2.
Paper Title : Expressions idiomatiques et compréhension : la question de l’évaluation de la familiarité des idiomes dans une perspective développementale