De quelques marqueurs de reformulation dans l’écriture des mémoires de master en français langue étrangère

Abstract

The theoretical chapter of dissertation papers written by master’s students represents a real challenge for them because the techniques of academic writing presuppose the judicious understanding and reformulation of the sources consulted. In this article, based on a corpus of 15 dissertation papers written in French as a foreign language in the broad domain of philology, we examine the types of reformulation used by novice writers as well as markers of reformulation used. The quantitative and qualitative approaches of reformulation markers identified in the foreign language are related to students’ reading and writing practices.