Dr. Isabelle Lemée

Contact Details

Office : M55, Department of French, St. Patrick’s College, Dublin 9, Ireland.

E-mail : Isabelle.Lemee@spd.dcu.ie

Phone: +353 1 884 2120

Fax: +353 1 8376197

Isabelle Lemée joined the French Department of St Patrick’s College in September 2008. She did her primary degree in English language and literature at the Université de Rouen in France, with a BA specialization in the Elizabethan period. In 1993 she was sent to Ireland by her University to be a “lectrice” in the French Department in University College Dublin. She then received her Ph.D. from University College Dublin in 2003. She looked at: “L’acquisition de la variation socio-stylistique par des apprenants hibernophones de français L2.” Before coming to St Patrick’s College, Isabelle Lemée was a professor at State University New York in Albany. She also lectured for 4 years in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies in Dublin City University.

Teaching Areas
Dr Lemée’s current teaching (2010/2011) includes the following courses:

• Langue et expression écrite
• Acquisition de la langue seconde
• Introduction à la linguistique
• Enseignement des langues vivantes en primaire

She also organises the Research Seminars in the French.

Research Interests

• Second Language Acquisition (SLA), especially the acquisition of French and pedagogy
• Canadian Studies, with special reference to French Immersion Education
• Sociolinguistics (particularly of French and English, including French Canadian forms)
• Variation Theory and the application of sociolinguistic variationist approaches to SLA
• Second Language Instruction, with particular reference to the Advanced Learner and the Advanced Language Curriculum
• French Language and Linguistics, as well as General and Applied Linguistics
  

Recent Publications & Communications

Books
Novembre 2010. Multiculturalism & Integration: Canadian & Irish Experiences. Proceedings of the Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland organised in Malahide in May 2008, co-editor with V. Regan and M. Conrick, Ottawa University Press.
June 2010. A view from afar: Canadian Studies in a European Context. Brno: Masaryk University. Proceedings of the ENCS Conference in October 2008, held in UCD, Co-Editor with N. Nestor, C. Ni Chasaide, and V. Regan, Peter Lang.
April 2009. Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context. The Case of Irish Learners of L2 French, co-editor with V. Regan and M. Howard, Multilingual Matters.

Journal Articles
Lemée, I. 2009. L’emploi de la référence temporelle du futur par des apprenants hibernophones de français L2. Cahiers de l’Association of French Language Studies. 14.2.
Lemée, I. and V. Regan. 2008. Le rôle du sexe dans l’acquisition de la compétence sociolinguistique par des apprenants hibernophones de français L2, Synergies Royaume-Uni et Irlande, 9-21.
Lemée, I., V. Regan & M. Howard. 2006. The L2 Acquisition of a Sociophonetic Variable: The Case of /l/ Deletion. Journal of French Language Studies, 16 (1): 1-24.
Lemée, Isabelle. 2002. Acquisition de la variation socio-stylistique dans l’interlangue d’apprenants hibernophones de français L2 : le cas de on et nous. Marges Linguistiques, www.marges-linguistiques.fr, vol. 4: 56-67.

Link to full list of publications and communication

Other Academic Activities

Grants and Awards
Open University Award, University College Dublin (2000)
Mary Kate O’Kelly Scholarship, University College Dublin (1998).

Funding
College Research Committee, St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra (1275 euro). For the publication of “Multiculturalism and Integration: diversity or assimilation; the current Irish experience and the experience of Canada” (November 2010).

Journal Article Reviewer
Journal of French Language Studies
Vox Romanica

Professional Memberships
Sept 2008 – 2010    Publicity Officer for the Association of French Language Studies.
May 2010 – present  Committee member of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland.
May 2008 – 2010    Honorary Secretary of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland.
Sept 2006 – 2008    International Relay for Publicity in Ireland for the Association of French Language Studies
Oct 2008 – Feb 2009  Guest Editor for the National Digital Learning Repository
Jan 2006 – Jan 2009  Treasurer of the Association of Applied French
Nov 2005 – 2007   Treasurer of the Irish Mountain Running Association.

Academic Services
Committee member on B.Ed Programme Board (St Patrick’s College).
Assessor for Teaching Practice (St Patrick’s College, March-April 2009; 2010).
Panel for Interviews on the Graduate Diploma in Education (St Patrick’s College, Dec 2008; May 2009).
Committee member for the First Multi-Cultural Night, April 20, 2005, SUNY at Albany.
Post-graduate representative for the Department Quality Assurance exercise, University College Dublin, 2000.

Other academic activities

Conference/seminar organisation

Organiser of the French Seminars in the Department of French in St Patrick’s College:

• Dr Brigitte LeJuez, L'Armée des ombres, April 2010.
• Dr Loïc Guyon, The Last Kiss of the Widow: Romanticism and the Death Penalty in 19th-century France: October 2009.
• Aleksandra Sudhershan, Fostering plurilingualism and pluriculturalism in the Irish classroom: learner and autonomy and self-assessment of language and intercultural competence, February 2009.
• Dr Jean-Philippe Imbert, Swallow that: Ogres and Monsters of the Mind, Dec 2008.

Scientific Committee membership

• the Association of Language Studies Conference in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in September 2009.
• the Postgraduate Conference in October 2008, in Dublin.
• the Conference organised by the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland in May 2008.

 

 

 

Sept 2006 – 2008      International Relay for Publicity in Ireland for the Association of French Language Studies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Last Updated: Wednesday January 19 2011