Kjersti Faldet Listhaug
Kjersti Faldet Listhaug
Associate Professor, Vice Dean of Education
Department of Language and Literature Faculty of HumanitiesBackground and activities
Vice Dean for Education, Faculty of Humanities
Research interests
- Language acquisition, particularly second and third language acquisition
- French linguistics
- Language and perception, spatial language
- The mental lexicon
Ongoing research projects
- Cross-linguistic influence in multilingual acquisition (CLIMA). Funded by The Reasearch Counsil of Norway. https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/clima
Research groups and cooperation:
- AcqVA: http://site.uit.no/acqva/
- FANT - Forskergruppe for andre- og tredjespråk: https://www.ntnu.no/isl/fant (in Norwegian). Coordinator.
- Co-director Bilingualism matters, Trondheim branch: http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/branches/trondheim-branch/
Teaching and supervision
I predominantly teach courses in French linguistics at BÅ and MA level, but have also taught courses in more general linguistic theory and in language and cognition. I supervise bachelors' and masters' theses within the fields of French syntax and second- and third-language acquisition. I also supervise doctoral theses within the same fields.
Background
- PhD in Linguistics
- Cand. Philol. (Master) in French. Has studied English and Norwegian as well.
- Head of Study programmes (BA and MA) in Foreign Languages, 2019-2021
- Senoior Research Librarian 2016-2018: Open Access publishing, EndNote, literature and resources in language and linguistics.
- Project manager digital assessment NTNU fall 2015
- Adviser at the Examinations Office, Student and Academic Division, NTNU from March 2014 to February 2016.
- Office manager at the Department of Language and Communication Studies in 2009
- Office manager at the Department of Modern Foreign Languages in 2007/2008
- Has worked at NTNU since 2002, as a student adviser from 2003 to 2007.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) French as a third language in Norway: The influence of the prior languages in the acquisition of word order. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). vol. 12 (1).
- (2018) Le rôle du niveau de maîtrise pour la représentation sémantique des prépositions spatiales en langue seconde. Synergies Pays Scandinaves.
- (2014) Les prépositions spatiales en français et en norvégien: une étude expérimentale et comparative. Syntaxe & Sémantique. vol. 15.
- (2012) No Evidence of L1 Path Encoding Strategies in the L2 in Advanced Bulgarian Speakers of Norwegian. Spatial Cognition and Computation. vol. 12 (4).
Report/dissertation
- (2015) Spatial Prepositions and Second Language Acquisition. The acquisition of spatial prepositions in French by native speakers of Norwegian. 2015. ISBN 978-82-326-1042-6.
- (2002) Réflexions sur la fonction syntaxique de L'élément introducteur des constructions infinitives du français moderne. 2002.
Others
- (2021) The interaction of target language, prior languages, and structure type in the L3 acquisition of verb placement. Micro-variation in Multilingualism . AcqVA & MiMS, UiT The Arctic University of Norway; Tromsø. 2021-11-11 - 2021-11-12.
- (2021) To move or not to move: Verb placement in L3 French. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America, GALANA9 . University of Iceland; Reykjavik. 2021-05-07 - 2021-05-09.
- (2019) Acquisition of verb placement in L3 French. Generative approaches to language acquisition (GALA 14) . University of Milano - Bicocca; Milano. 2019-09-12 - 2019-09-14.
- (2019) Verb placement in L3 German. L3 Workshop . Universität Konstanz; Konstanz. 2019-06-07 - 2019-06-08.
- (2019) Transfer in L3 acquisition - movement to where?. Workshop on V2 and related phenomena in acquisition, variation, and attrition. . AcqVA; Oslo. 2019-10-22 - 2019-10-23.
- (2019) Fremmedspråk og språklæring. Nasjonal lektorutdanningskonferanse . UiT Norges arktiske universitet; Tromsø. 2019-11-07 - 2019-11-08.
- (2019) Hva vil det si å kunne et ord? Om vokabular i fremmedspråk. Den europeiske språkdagen. Halvdagsseminar for engelsk- og fremmedspråkslærere . Institutt for språk og litteratur, NTNU; Trondheim. 2019-09-26 - 2019-09-26.
- (2019) Acquisition of verb placement in L3 German. GASLA Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition . University of Nevada, Reno; Reno, Nevada. 2019-03-22 - 2019-03-24.
- (2019) Défis et dilemmes dans l'enseignement de la grammaire français. Colloque. Ecrire une grammaire du français: Standard et variétés; langue maternelle et FLE . UiO; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (FMSH). 2019-12-04 - 2019-12-06.
- (2018) Word order in L3 acquisition. International conference on multilingualism and multilingual education . Douglas college; New Westminster, Vancouver. 2018-05-31 - 2018-06-02.
- (2018) L3 acquisition of verb placement. Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America - GALANA-8 . Indiana University, Bloomington; Bloomington, Indiana. 2018-09-27 - 2018-09-30.
- (2018) Flere språk til flere - Forskningsbasert kunnskap om flerspråklighet. Kunnskap:kaffe . NTNU Universitetsbiblioteket, Dragvoll; Trondheim. 2018-02-14 - 2018-02-14.
- (2017) Flere språk til flere. Språkdagkonferansen 2017 . NTNU og Fremmedspråksenteret; Trondheim. 2017-09-26 - 2017-09-26.
- (2017) L'acquisition d'une troisième langue: Le français après l'anglais. Språkdagkonferansen 2017 . NTNU og Fremmedspråksenteret; Trondheim. 2017-09-26 - 2017-09-26.
- (2013) Geometry and function in L2 spatial prepositions: Fine grained geometrical distinctions are hard to acquire in the L2. PIF 2013 Psycholinguistics in Flanders . KU Leuven; Leuven. 2013-05-30 - 2013-05-31.
- (2013) L2 representations for spatial prepositions. Parallel grammars and multilingualism . NTNU; Trondheim. 2013-10-16 - 2013-10-18.
- (2013) Spatial prepositions in the foreign language. Thinking, Doing, Learning: Usage Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning . Second Language Research Centre, Syd-dansk universitet; Odense. 2013-04-24 - 2013-04-26.
- (2011) Effects of geometry and function on spatial prepositions in French and Norwegian - challenges in adapting test materials. Erasmus Intensive Programme. Special abilities and talents - patterns of cognitive processes in people with disabilities. . New Bulgarian University; Sofia. 2011-10-10 - 2011-11-21.
- (2011) Under or behind the umbrella? Testing the effects of geometry and function on spatial prepositions in Norwegian and French. PIF2011 Psycholinguistics in Flandern . Universiteit Antwerpen; Antwerpen. 2011-05-25 - 2011-05-26.