Wallace Lambert
Wallace ("Wally") Earl Lambert | |
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| Born | December 31, 1922 |
| Died | August 23, 2009 (aged 86) |
| Alma mater | Brown University, Colgate University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Thesis | An exploratory study of the developmental aspects of second-language acquisition |
Wallace Earl Lambert (December 31, 1922 – August 23, 2009) was a Canadian psychologist and a professor in the psychology department at McGill University (1954–1990). Among the founders of psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, he is known for his contributions to social and cross-cultural psychology (intergroup attitudes, child-rearing values, and psychological consequences of living in multicultural societies), language education (the French immersion program), and bilingualism (measurement of language dominance, attitudes and motivation in second-language learning, and social, cognitive, and neuropsychological consequences of bilingualism).