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Dr. Amelia Lambelet

Associated researcher

+41 26 305 61 80
amelia.lambelet@unifr.ch

Research interests

  • Language acquisition and use
  • Crosslinguistic influences
  • Language and cognition, mental lexicon
  • Multilingualism and school, intercomprehension, receptive competences

More to Amelia Lambelet on academia.ch
Research projects (direction)
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Title
Literature review: Language aptitude
Status
In progress
This research overview focuses on differences between individuals when it comes to results in learning foreign languages in school. The aim is to identify and discuss studies about factors responsible for differences in... more
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Written productions from children with an immigration background
Status
Completed
This project aims to describe the development of productive writing skills in children with a Portuguese immigration background living in Switzerland (in the language of origin and in the language of instruction). ... more
Title
Language of origin and language at school
Status
Completed
The project "Language of origin and language at school: are language skills transferable?" was initiated to explore potential transfers between the language of origin and the language spoken at school in schoolchildren... more
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Rumantsch receptiv
Status
Completed
Project conducted by the University of Teacher Education Graubünden PHGR The project "Rumantsch receptiv" was created to develop teaching material for independent study and/or use in language courses. The goal of the... more
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Italiano ricettivo (Capito ?)
Status
Completed
Project conducted by the University of Bern (UniBE) and the Osservatorio linguistico della Svizzera Italiana (OLSI) Concluded at the end of 2013, the project "Italiano ricettivo" developed the teaching material Capito... more
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Multilingual sequences in history lessons
Status
Completed
The goal of the project "Multilingual sequences in history lessons: processes to solve intercomprehension tasks and appropriate learner profiles" was twofold: First, the project adjusted worksheets designed in the... more
Publications
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Monographs

  • Lambelet, A. & Berthele, R. (2015) Age and Foreign Language Learning in School. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/age-and-foreign-language-learning-in-school-amelia-lambelet/?K=9781137525895
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2012). L'apprentissage du genre grammatical en langue étrangère : à la croisée des approches linguistiques et cognitives. PhD thesis published online. More
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2010). Discours idéologique et manipulation des représentations cognitives: Analyse pragmatique de la communication non-coopérative. Sarrebruck: Editions Universitaires Européennes.

Papers

  • Lambelet, A. (2016). Second grammatical gender system and gender linked connotations in adult emergent bilinguals with French as a second language. International Journal of Bilingualism 20(1), 62-75.  Online first
  • Lambelet, A. & Mauron, P.-Y. (2015). Receptive multilingualism at school: an uneven playing ground? International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (online)
  • Lambelet, A. & Mauron, P.-Y. (2015). Ilots de plurilinguisme en classe d'histoire: processus de résolution d'une tâche en intercompréhension et profils individuels favorables à ce type d'activité. Rapport final, Fribourg : Institut de plurilinguisme, 97 p. (online)
  • Lambelet, A. & Berthele, R.(2014). Age and Foreign Language Learning in School: scientific report. Fribourg: Institute of multilingualism. More
  • Lambelet, A., Desgrippes, M., Decandio, F., Pestana, C. (2014). Appris dans une langue, transféré dans l’autre? Mélanges CRAPEL (35), 99-114. More
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2014). Age et apprentissage des langues étrangères: quelques clés pour mieux comprendre les résultats empiriques. In Lambelet, Amelia & Zimmermann, Martina (Eds). The earlier the better? Early foreign language teaching. Babylonia I/ 2014. More
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2012). Des textes en langue source comme « îlots de plurilinguisme » en classe d'histoire : Une alternative à l'enseignement bilingue ? In Brohy, C. (ed) Akten ZUG / APEPS : Zweisprachiger Unterricht: Modelle, Ausbildung, Nachhaltigkeit L'enseignement bilingue: Modèles, formation, continuité.
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2012). Lengua, cultura y cognición: El caso del género gramatical. In:  Alvarez Mosquera, P. et al. (Eds): Interlingüística XXII, Volumen II. Salamanca: LusoEspañola de Ediciones, S.L. pp : 67-79
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2011). Genre grammatical et cognition chez des apprenants de français langue étrangère : une approche psycholinguistique.  In: Estève, I., Faure, A., Guitton, A., Mout, T., Souque, A. & Touati, A. (Eds): Autour des langues et du langage n°2, Grenoble: PUG. pp: 45-52
  • Lambelet, Amelia (2010). Género gramatical y representaciones cognitivas: cuales son las consecuencias del aprendizaje de un nuevo sistema? Interlingüística XXI, pp :182-192
  • Berthele, Raphael & Lambelet, Amelia (2009). Approche empirique de l'intercompréhension: répertoires, processus et résultats. Revue de linguistique et de didactique des langues (LIDIL) 39/2009, pp: 151-162

Organisation of scientific events

  • Informal Research Group (IRG), more
  • IRG 2014 conference