Abstract:
Our research aims at applying a typology of the problems related to text coherence, which was elaborated by Odette Gagnon, to the written production of students. Using such techniques, text coherence errors in the students’ writings was spotted and analysed. All the key elements contributing to text coherence such as cohesion, the organisation of units into hierarchy was dealt with by introducing and describing the various categories and subcategories that make it up. Such a methodology for analysing errors provides interesting prospects for the pedagogy of writing. Implementation of the techniques will be of great benefit to the teachers of French as a foreign language during their training not only as a means of assessing but also of teaching text coherence.
