Roy Lyster
Associate Professor
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
McGill University
3700 McTavish Street
tel: 514-398-5942
e-mail: roy.lyster@mcgill.ca
Membership Status
Principal Member
Research Themes
Areas of Expertise
Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics
Current Research Interests
My research is primarily classroom-based and focuses on the effects of different types of classroom interaction and instructional options on second language development, especially in the context of content-based second language classrooms. Of special interest to me are the pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of form-focused negotiation, including the types of retrieval processes that most effectively trigger developmental changes in a learner's underlying interlanguage system.
Selected Publications
- Lyster, R. (2004). Research on form-focused instruction in immersion classrooms: Implications for theory and practice. Journal of French Language Studies, 14 (3). 321-341
- Lyster, R. (2004). Differential effects of prompts and recasts in form-focused instruction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 399-432.
- Lyster, R. (2006). Predictability in French gender attribution: A corpus analysis. Journal of French Language Studies, 16, 69-92.
- Lyster, R., & Mori, H. (2006). Interactional feedback and instructional counterbalance. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 269-300.
Graduate Students
- Susan Ballinger (PhD candidate)
- Kimiko Hinenoya (PhD candidate)
- Jesús Izquirdo (PhD candidate)
- Daniéle Guènette (PhD candidate)
- Margaret Quéguiner(PhD candidate)
- Andrea Sterzuk (PhD candidate)
- Yingli Yang (PhD candidate)
- Michael Lenane (MA candidate)
