Kjersti Faldet Listhaug
+4773596548
Bygg 4, 4503, Dragvoll
About
Vice Dean of Education, Faculty of Humanities
Research interests
- Language acquisition, particularly second and third language acquisition
- French linguistics
- Language and perception, spatial language
- The mental lexicon
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.
Research
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.
- VOCLEX - Vocabulary and the multilingual mental lexicon: https://www.ntnu.edu/isl/voclex
- Co-director Bilingualism matters, Trondheim branch: http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/branches/trondheim-branch/
Publications
2022
- Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro. (2022) The role of L1 Norwegian and L2 English in the acquisition of verb placement in L3 German. Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference..
2021
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne. (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). volum 12 (1).
2018
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet. (2018) Le rôle du niveau de maîtrise pour la représentation sémantique des prépositions spatiales en langue seconde. Synergies Pays Scandinaves.
2015
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Helland, Hans Petter. (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.
2014
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet. (2014) Les prépositions spatiales en français et en norvégien: une étude expérimentale et comparative. Syntaxe & Sémantique. volum 15.
2012
- Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Martinez, Liliana Sergueeva Serbezova; Eshuis, Rik; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet. (2012) No Evidence of L1 Path Encoding Strategies in the L2 in Advanced Bulgarian Speakers of Norwegian. Spatial Cognition and Computation. volum 12 (4).
2002
- Listhaug, Kjersti. (2002) Réflexions sur la fonction syntaxique de L'élément introducteur des constructions infinitives du français moderne. 2002.
Journal publications
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne. (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). volum 12 (1).
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet. (2018) Le rôle du niveau de maîtrise pour la représentation sémantique des prépositions spatiales en langue seconde. Synergies Pays Scandinaves.
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet. (2014) Les prépositions spatiales en français et en norvégien: une étude expérimentale et comparative. Syntaxe & Sémantique. volum 15.
- Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Martinez, Liliana Sergueeva Serbezova; Eshuis, Rik; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet. (2012) No Evidence of L1 Path Encoding Strategies in the L2 in Advanced Bulgarian Speakers of Norwegian. Spatial Cognition and Computation. volum 12 (4).
Report/dissertation
- Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Helland, Hans Petter. (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.
- Listhaug, Kjersti. (2002) Réflexions sur la fonction syntaxique de L'élément introducteur des constructions infinitives du français moderne. 2002.
Part of book/report
- Dahl, Anne; Listhaug, Kjersti Faldet; Busterud, Guro. (2022) The role of L1 Norwegian and L2 English in the acquisition of verb placement in L3 German. Generative SLA in the Age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond. Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference..
Teaching
Teaching and supervision
As I am currently Vice Dean of Education at the Faculty of Humanities, I do not have ordinary teaching.
Normally, I predominantly teach courses in French linguistics at BA and MA level, but I have also taught courses in more general linguistic theory and in language and cognition.
Supervision
I supervise bachelors' and masters' theses within the fields of French syntax and second- and third-language acquisition. I emphasize including master students in ongoing research projects, both because the students provide valuable research within the projects and because the projects give students access to a larger network and broader competence in the field.
Here are examples of masters' theses I've supervised or co-supervised:
- Torheim: L'acquisition syntaxique en L3: Une étude sur l’interférence translinguistique dans le placement du verbe en français L3
- Ilebekk: (Ne) pas. Une étude qualitative de l’enseignement de la négation française en Norvège
- Kjellmark: La taille du vocabulaire chez des étudiants de français au niveau universitaire en Norvège
- Egeland: Kartlegging av språkvansker hos elever med et annet morsmål enn norsk i den videregående skolen i Agder
- Stevenson: Cross-linguistic variation and second language acquisition of human locomotion lexicalization patterns in French and Norwegian
I also supervise doctoral candidates within the same fields. Currently, the candidates I'm supervising are part of the CLIMA researhc project.