Un corpus de productions écrites françaises – matériau pour mieux comprendre les choix lexicaux d’apprenants multilingues

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to present a corpus containing 105 Swedish learners’ written production in French and to discuss some possible didactic applications of such a corpus. Learners from four different grades (age 11-15) were invited to retell a short picture story in writing. One of the main characteristics of the corpus is that it is multilingual in nature, with many instances of influences from the learners’ previously acquired languages. It is argued that this type of corpus can be useful in class, allowing for potential learning situations, linguistic development and metalinguistic reflection.