Florencia Franceschina

Florecia Franceschina is a lecturer at Lancaster University. Her main research interests are language acquisition and its relation to theoretical linguistics, especially learnability, route of development and the influence of a speaker's first language on second language development and attainment in the domain of morphosyntax. Her empirical work has focused on the acquisition of syntax in very advanced second language speakers, and this is the theme of her monograph Fossilized second language grammars (2005, John Benjamins). She and other colleagues (including the co-authors of this report) are currently developing a longitudinal corpus of L2 writing.