Roy Lyster , Professor of McGill University

Roy Lyster

–  Research perspectives on integrating language and content

– Corrective feedback in second language learning and teaching

Area of expertise: 

• Second language education
• Content-based language teaching
• Biliteracy development
• Classroom discourse
• Corrective feedback

Roy Lyster is Professor of Second Language Education in the Department of Integrated Studies Education at McGill University. His research examines content-based second language instruction and the effects of instructional interventions designed to counterbalance form-focused and content-based approaches.

His research interests also include professional development and collaboration among teachers for the purpose of integrated language learning and biliteracy development.

He was co-recipient with colleague Leila Ranta of the 1998 Paul Pimsleur Award for Research in Foreign Language Education for their article “Corrective feedback and learner uptake: Negotiation of form in communicative classrooms.” He was co-president then president of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics from 2004 to 2008 and serves on the Editorial Boards of Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Teaching Research, Journal of Instructed Second Language Acquisition Research, and the Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education.

He is the author of two books: Learning and Teaching Languages Through Content published by Benjamins in 2007 and Vers une approche intégrée en immersion published by Les Éditions CEC in 2016.

Books

• Tedick, D., & Lyster, R. (in progress). Scaffolding language development in immersion and dual language classrooms. New York: Routledge.
• Lyster, R. (2018). Content-based language teaching. [The Routledge E-Modules on Contemporary Language Teaching edited by B. VanPatten & G. Keating.] New York: Routledge.
• Lyster, R. (2016). Vers une approche intégrée en immersion. Montréal : Les Éditions CEC.
• Lyster, R. (2007). Learning and teaching languages through content: A counterbalanced approach. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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