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...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this thesis is to determine the meaning and the idea behind inscriptions(signboards) on commercial vehicles. From the study, it was rea1ized that those who create these inscriptions really have some interesting experiences to share with the larger population. The writings are also made up of ideas relating to culture, socio-politics and shared knowledge of a given linguistic group in which they occur. The writings serve as a means of identification of the vehicl...
ABSTRACT One of the inevitable results of the co-existence of English and the Ghanaian Languages is the fusion in their form and function. This natural sociolinguistic symbioses has invariably brought about the emergence of an artificial language that some people term « mixed », « hybrid », or even « third» language. This phenomenon is common with Ghanaian languages, as with local languages elsewhere. Today many socio-linguists are interested more concretely in the phenomenon of code-mi...
Abstract The aesthetic (The writing style) that characterizes the third generation of francophone African writers is a literary writing strategy that is also reflected in Boubacar Boris Diop literary works. This study, which highlights the complexity of the narrative structure of Diop and establishes its relation with the structure of the society he depicts is entitled "The narrative structure in the image of a society subjected to changes: A Study of Le Temps de Tamango of Boubacar Boris Dio...
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 This dissertation is a pragmatic study of the linguistic and literary deviations in Kourouma‟s novels, with special emphasis on Allah n’est pas obligé, his picaresque novel in which he makes an original use of the French language giving it a special local coloration and twist. It takes into account the historical, linguistic and cultural, sociopolitical contexts, and the peculiarity of the author‟s utterance and statement regarding the real social vices bedeviling the Africa...
ABSTRACT This thesis seeks to identify the narrators and narrative skills the two writers, Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti used in their books, Une vie de boy and Pauvre Christ de Bomba respectively, to achieve their objectives. Naïve narrators recount events plainly as they unfold not being conscious of the effect of what they say and are hence used by writers to achieve their objectives of informing and educating their readers. Matured, they would be careful with the narration of events of ...