Director of studies
Director of studies, French Studies

Senior Lecturer
- French Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Director of Studies
- French Studies
- Italian Studies
- Romanian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Health and Safety Representative
- Section 3
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail malin.agrenrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 48 79
Room SOL:L513A
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20
I am a teacher of French and a researcher in the field of second language acquisition at the Centre for Languages and Literature at Lund University.
I teach French at all levels and is also involved in the teacher training program.
In my research, I study the second language acquisition of French with special focus on morphology and syntax. In my Ph.D thesis (Ågren, 2008) I described how Swedish learners acquire the silent plural morhology of written French. I discussed the developmental sequence of this morhology and investigated the underlying factors that influence the morphological development in this domain.
During the last decade, I have been involved in different research projects investigating language development in different groups of L2 learners, both children and adults. I am currently part of a research project TAL (www.tal.lu.se) where we study the development of oral language proficiency in foreign languages (French, German, Spanish) in the Swedish school context.
Research
My profile in Lund University research portal
- Written Corpus of French as Second Language (research leader)
- Direct Profile: A program for analysing developmental sequences and developmental stages in written learner French
- Learning, Teaching and Assessment of Second Foreign Languages - an Alignment Study on Oral Language Proficiency in the Swedish School Context
- Age of onset and development of French
Books (2)
- Ågren, M. (2008). À la recherche de la morphologie silencieuse : sur le développement du pluriel en francais L2 écrit. Études Romanes de Lund, 84. Lund University. Dissertation.
- Ågren, M. (2005). Développement de la morphologie du nombre en français langue étrangère à l'écrit: Étude transversale. Lund University. Licentiate thesis.
Editorships (3)
- Ågren, M. & Howard, M. (submitted). (Ed.) Second language acquisition of French liaison: current issues, methods and perspectives. LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- (accepted/in press). (Ed.) French liaison in second language acquisition. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 10. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Granfeldt, J., Bardel, C., Erickson, G., Sayehli, S., Ågren, M. & Österberg, R. (2019). (Eds.) Special issue on Learning, teaching and assessment of second foreign languages in school contexts. Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, 13, 1-174. University of Jyväskylä.
Articles (22)
- Granget, C., Michot, M.-E. & Ågren, M. (submitted). Acquisition des formes verbales irrégulières en français L2 : la L1 fait-elle la différence ?. Gramm-R: Études de linguistique francaise. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Ågren, M., Michot, M. E., Granget, C., Gerolimich, S., Hadermann, P. & Stabarin, I. (2021). “Les copains *Dit au revoir” : On Subject–Verb Agreement in L2 French and Cross-Linguistic Influence. Languages, 6. MDPI AG.
- Granfelt, J., Sayehli, S. & Ågren, M. (2021). Trends in the Study of Modern languages in Swedish Lower Secondary School (2000 – 2018) and the Impact of Grade Point Average Enhancement Credits. Education Inquiry, 12, 127-146. Umeå Universitet, School of Education.
- Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2020). Évolution de l’étude de la langue française à l’école suédoise : les tendances de 2000 à 2018. Synergies Pays Scandinaves, 14, 47-59. GERFLINT, Aarhus, Denmark.
- Ågren, M. & van de Weijer, J. (2019). The production of preverbal liaison in Swedish learners of L2 French. LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 10, 117-139. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Granfeldt, J., Bardel, C., Erickson, G., Sayehli, S., Ågren, M. & Österberg, R. (2019). Editorial. Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, 13, 1-5. University of Jyväskylä.
- Granfeldt, J., Sayehli, S. & Ågren, M. (2019). The context of second foreign languages in Swedish secondary schools : Results of a questionnaire to school leaders. Apples - Journal of Applied Language Studies, 13, 27-48. University of Jyväskylä.
- Howard, M. & Ågren, M. (2019). French liaison in second language acquisition. LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 10, 1-10. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Howard, M. & Ågren, M. (2019). Introduction to the special issue : French liaison in second language acquisition. LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 10, 1-10. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Howard, M. & Ågren, M. (2019). La liaison en français langue étrangère. LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 10, 11-21. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Ågren, M. (2017). Étude expérimentale sur le traitement de l'accord sujet-verbe en nombre en FLE. Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquee, 105, 7-24. Institut de Linguistique de l'Universite.
- Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2017). Une évaluation formative de FLE basée sur les itinéraires d'acquisition est-elle possible? : La perspective des enseignants. Le Francais dans le Monde. Recherches et Applications, 61.
- Ågren, M. (2016). Apprendre l'orthographe profonde du français langue étrangère. Revue Francaise de Linguistique Appliquee, 21, 95-108. Editions "De Werelt": Amsterdam.
- Ågren, M. (2014). Production et compréhension de la morphologie verbale en FLE : Les difficultés de l'accord sujet-verbe en nombre. Cahiers AFLS, 19, 1-22. Association for French Language Studies.
- Ågren, M., Granfeldt, J. & Thomas, A. (2014). Combined effects of age of onset and input on the development of different grammatical structures: A study of simultaneous and successive acquisition of French. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, 4, 461-492. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2014). De l'acquisition des langues a l'évaluation en FLE – Direkt Profil en application. Mélanges Crapel, 35. Université de Neuchâtel.
- Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2014). SLA developmental stages and teachers’ assessment of written French: Exploring Direkt Profil as a diagnostic assessment tool. Language Testing, 31, 285-305. SAGE Publications.
- Ågren, M. (2013). The impact of spoken French on the acquisition of written French in child L2 learners. Journal of Language Teaching and Learning, 3, 1-19.
- Ågren, M. & van de Weijer, J. (2013). Input frequency and the acquisition of subject-verb agreement in numner in spoken and written French. Journal of French Language Studies, 23, 311-333. Cambridge University Press.
- Ågren, M. & van de Weijer, J. (2013). Number problems in monolingual and bilingual French-speaking children: A production/comprehension divide?. Language, Interaction and Acquisition, 4, 25-50. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Ågren, M. (2011). The impact of spoken French on the acquisition of written French in child learners. Historielärarnas Förenings Årsskrift. Historielärarnas förening.
- Ågren, M. & Hedbor, C. (2006). Acquisition et mise en oeuvre de la morphologie flexionnelle en francais langue étrangère. Rééducation Orthophonique, 159-189. Syndicat national des rééducateurs en orthophonie.
Book chapters (11)
- Granget, C., Mighot, M. E., Ågren, M., Gerolimigh, S., Hadermann, P. & Stabarin, I. (2021). Acquisition des formes verbales alternantes en français L2 : La L1 des apprenants fait-elle la différence?. Réflexions sur les usages et les utilisateurs du français : Aspects acquisitionnels et didactiques: Reflections on the uses and users of French: implications for acquisition and instruction, 27-62. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Thomas, A., Granfelt, J. & Ågren, M. (2021). Le rôle de l'input. In Leclerq, P., Edmonds, A. & Sneed German, E. (Eds.) Introduction à l'acquisition des langues étrangères. De Boeck Supérieur.
- Granfelt, J., Bardel, C., Erickson, G., Sayehli, S., Ågren, M. & Österberg, R. (2019). Muntlig språkfärdighet i främmande språk : en studie av samspelet mellan lärande, undervisning och bedömning. Resultatdialog 2019, 29-33. Vetenskapsrådet.
- Ågren, M. (2016). Second language teaching from the perspective of second language acquisition research. In Corti, A. & Wolf, J. (Eds.) Romanistische Fachdidaktik : Grundlagen – Theorien – Methoden (pp. 89-102). Waxmann Verlag.
- Ågren, M. (2015). La liaison préverbale comme accord sujet-verbe en nombre en FLE. In Maria, P. & Eva, H. (Eds.) L'acquisition de constructions verbales en langue étrangère (pp. 159-174), XCIX. Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki.
- Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2013). Stages of Processability and Levels of Proficiency in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. The Case of L3 French. In Flyman-Mattsson, A. & Norrby, C. (Eds.) Language Acquisition and Use in Multilingual Contexts. Theory and Practice (pp. 28-38), Travaux de l'Institut de linguistique de Lund 52. Lund University.
- Ågren, M., Granfeldt, J. & Schlyter, S. (2012). The Growth of Complexity and Accuracy in L2 French: Past observations and recent applications of developmental stages. In Housen, A., Kuiken, F. & Wedder, I. (Eds.) Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency Investigating Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA (pp. 95-120). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Ågren, M. (2009). Morphological development in Swedish learners of French: Discussing the processability perspective. In Kessler, J. & Keating, D. (Eds.) Research in Second Language Acquisition: Empirical Evidence across Languages (pp. 121-151). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Ågren, M. (2009). The Advanced L2 Writer of French: A Study of Number Agreement in Swedish Learners. In Labeau, E. & Myles, F. (Eds.) The Advanced Learner Variety: The Case of French (pp. 149-172), Volume 12. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2008). Grammatisk profilanalys och lärarbedömning: en korrelationsstudie. In Granfeldt, J., Håkansson, G., Källkvist, M. & Schlyter, S. (Eds.) Språkinlärning, språkdidaktik och teknologi. Rapport från ASLA:s höstsymposium, Lund, 8-9 november 2007 (pp. 79-100). ASLA, Association suédoise de linguistique appliquée.
- Schlyter, S., Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2007). Stades de développement en francais - perspectives historiques et futures. In Van Daele, S., Housen, A., Kuiken, F., Pierrard, M. & Vedder, I. (Eds.) Complexity, Fluency and Accuracy in Second Language Use, Learning and Teaching : 29 - 30 March 2007 (pp. 193-205). Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten.
Conference contributions (9)
- Granfeldt, J., Ågren, M. & Thomas, A. (2021). Le rôle de l’input pour le développement du vocabulaire et de la grammaire en acquisition du français par des enfants monolingues et bilingues. In Schøsler, L. & Härmä, J. (Eds.) Bibliothèque de Linguistique Romane (BiLiRo), Actes du XXIXe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes : (Copenhague, 1-6 juillet 2019) (pp. 1477-1487), 17. Société de Linguistique Romane / Éditions de linguistique et de philologie.
- Granfeldt, J., Sayehli, S. & Ågren, M. (2019). Second Foreign Languages in the Swedish school context : The attitudes of school leaders. In Conti, V., Johnsen, L. A. & de Pietro, J.-F. (Eds.) Des mots et des langues qui nous parlent... : Représentations langagières, enseignement et apprentissage (pp. 59-75). Institut de recherche et de documentation pédagogique.
- Granfeldt, J., Thomas, A. & Ågren, M. (2019). Le rôle de l’input pour le développement du vocabulaire et de la grammaire en acquisition du français par des enfants monolingues et bilingues.
- Granfeldt, J., Ågren, M. & Sayehli, S. (2017). Second foreign languages in the Swedish school context - The views of school leaders.
- Ågren, M. (2010). La fréquence dans l'input et l'acquisition de l'accord en nombre en francais L2.
- Ågren, M. (2010). Plural morphology in written child L2 French : like child L1 or adult L2?.
- Schlyter, S., Granfeldt, J. & Ågren, M. (2007). Stades de développement en français - perspectives historiques et futures.
- Ågren, M. (2006). Acquisition de la morphologie silencieuse en français langue étrangère à l'écrit: le cas de l'accord en nombre.
- Granfeldt, J., Nugues, P., Persson, E., Thulin, J., Ågren, M. & Schlyter, S. (2006). CEFLE and Direkt Profil: a new computer learner corpus in French L2 and a system for grammatical profiling. In Nugues, P., Ågren, M., Thulin, J., Persson, E. & Schlyter, S. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 565-570). ELRA.
Articles in specialist publications and popular press (1)
Newspaper articles (1)
Miscellaneous (1)
Administrative
- Director of Studies at French Studies, Italian Studies and Romanian Studies
- Member, Board of Section 3, Centre for Languages and Literature
Teaching

Senior Lecturer
- French Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Director of Studies
- French Studies
- Italian Studies
- Romanian Studies
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Health and Safety Representative
- Section 3
- Centre for Languages and Literature
Contact information
E-mail malin.agrenrom.luse
Phone +46 46 222 48 79
Room SOL:L513A
Visiting address
Helgonabacken 12, Lund
Postal address
Box 201, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 20