ABSTRACT This work seeks to analyse the difficulties learners of French at the S H S level have with the transformation of active sentences into passive sentences. We collected data from two Senior High Schools, namely: Accra Academy and St Mary’s Girls’ Senior High, both in the capital city of Ghana. In this study, we used twenty (20) learners from each school, making up a total of forty (40) learners, to enable us get data for the analyses. We used questionnaires and exercises to colle...
ABSTRACT The importance of the direct object complement pronouns in both oral and written communication cannot be underestimated. It avoids repetitions thus, making the communication nice. For instance, « Oui, je le connais » as a response to the question « Tu connais ce garçon ? » instead of repeating the direct object complement as in « Oui, je connais ce garçon ». However, pronominalising the direct object complement in French remains a difficulty for quite a good number of Ghanaia...
ABSTRACT A number of research works have investigated civil wars, cannibalistic rituals, the hypocrisy of religion, rawest topics developed by Léonora Miano in her first two novels: L’intérieur de la nuit ( Dark Heart of the night in English) and Contours du jour qui vient. The aim of this study is to identify and analyse the image of women in L’intérieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vient, both contemporary works whose main characters were young women: Ayané and Musango respec...
ABSTRACT This research examines the nature ofFanti-English code-mixing among Fantispeaking students of the University of Cape Coast. It intended to find out the specific matrix language of the code mixed discourse of these students and the effects ofthis matrix language on the Fanti language as used by the population. The research questions and hypotheses were formulated around this problem. The data collection tools were questionnaires, observation and interviews. While the questionnaires we...
ABSTRACT The main objective ofthis thesis is to detennine how to integrate Internet, ., as a tool for teaching/learning, into the programme of study of French at the Department of French of the University of Cape Coast. From the study, it was realized that both students and lecturers of the Department had an appreciable level of skills in the use of computer and internet. It was also realized that students and lecturers alike use the common services of the internet, like e-mail, chat, search...
ABSTRACT Ghana after her independence adopted English Language as the official language of the country. English therefore enjoys the highest status more than other Ghanaian Languages since it is widely used as medium of communication in any national activities in jurisdiction, legislation, Government policy information and in the press. More so, despite the country being multilingual, English serves as the instructional language in our schools right from primary to tertiary. It is also the l...
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of linguistic and extralinguistic factorson the variable deletion of the French pre-verbal particle ‘ne’ and the variable use of ‘on’ as a first person plural pronoun in the oral discourse offinal year students of French. The instruments for data collection used were questionnaires and interviews. The questionnaires were used to collect demographic information about the respondents while the interviews, which bothered on daily issues, were des...
ABSTRACT This research analyses the difficulties associated with the use and transformation of sentences from the active voice into the passive voice in French. Our analysis was done through the various use and transformation of the passive voice in some documents or books by different authors and through interactions and dialogues with learners and some teachers of French language. It was found out that most students or learners of French are not able to do the correct transformation of the ...
ABSTRACT This study looks at some difficulties of learners in written French at the SHS level in the Tamale Metropolis. The purpose was to find out the nature of difficulties students have in French essay writing with regard to the use of cohesive elements (anaphors and connectives) and syntactic structures. The data collected as a basis for this study were through three instruments namely, indepth interview for the teachers, questionnaire and essay writing test for the students. The target g...
ABSTRACT The use of Oral Expressions is a very important tool in the teaching and learning of a language. In a practical language class, it is through conversations that both the teacher and the student understand each other. Oral expression therefore facilitates one’s perfection of a language. We have observed that, most SHS graduates, obtained excellent grades (A1, B2 or B3) in the French language in their WASSCE examinations. But majority of these students, pursuing French at the tertiar...
ABSTRACT The research is of the view that language, being a medium of communication, spoken or written, is an essential tool which enables people to understand one another. The main objective of this research work is to consider games as pedagogical tool in French class, (French as a foreign language).The theoretical framework for this research is drawn from the cognitive approach of Jacques Tardif (1992) and constructivist approach of Jerome Bruner (2002)... Based on these approaches, we too...
ABSTRACT We set out, in this thesis, to study the representation of the hero in Le Rouge et Le Noir and Une Vie de Boy. Our objective was to establish that in portraying the hero in Le Rouge et Le Noir and Une Vie de Boy, Stendhal and Ferdinand Oyono adopt similar approaches. We did do because we considered it a novelty to compare two writers belonging two different literary periods and two different types of literature: French and Francophone African. In order to achieve this, we proceeded a...
ABSTRACT This study, entitled “L’espace dans Le Pleurer-Rire et La Nouvelle Romance d’Henri Lopes”, looks at how the structure of spatial setting serves the discourse of the two texts. The antithetic or contrastive structure of the spatial setting, made up of Places of domination, characterized by power, luxury, infrastructural development, but also torture, repression, discrimination…, and Places of disenchantment, typified by insalubrious conditions, poverty, suffering and misery...
ABSTRACT The research aims at finding the differences in the levels of motivation between Anglophone learners of French as a foreign language and their counterpart Francophone learners of English as foreign language. The study also reports on the perceptions of these learners with regards to the importance of the French and English languages they are studying at Ghana Institute of Language (GIL), Kumasi. Questionnaires were administered to a total of 44 learners at the intermediate level, o...
RESUME Cette recherche donne un aperçu de ce que cela implique d'être un traducteur bilingue en mettant en évidence les questions clés telles ce que la traduction implique sue l'échelle mondiale, qui est un traducteur, ce que cela signifie d'être bilingue, la théorie l’ interprétation, la compréhension des significations des mots, des phrases, des textes et leurs contextes, de reformulation pour une juste interprétation, la nécessité de la maîtrise des deux langues à un traduc...