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 method...
ABSTRACT This study aims at examining the discourse elements in posters used to advertise christian events at UCC and how they influence selected students to attend events advertised. The discourse elements were used to prepare questionnaires for sampled students. The data was collected at the Students’ Reference Section of the Main Library using accidental and purposive sampling methods. In all, data were collected from 144 respondents and were analyzed based on the Communicative theory of...
ABSTRACT Translation as a discipline may be perceived in two ways: first, this may be executed solely as a professional activity; second, it may be done as a means of learning a foreign language. A foreign language, for example, French may be acquired through the activities of translation. Over the years, it has been observed that final year students in French as Foreign Language still perform very poorly in translation, particularly, when translating from English into French. A careful perus...
ABSTRACT This thesis entitled “the image of childhood in Allah n’est pas obligé by Ahmadou Kourouma and Contours du jour qui vient by Léonora Miano” analyzes childhood problems represented in the two novels. The study examines some structures that affect the cognitive and physical development of the child. We use socio -criticism, developed by Claude Duchet, as our theoretical framework. The thesis identifies the relationship between the child and the family, a relationship which weak...
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 The choice of a language for communication in a multilingual community has to be examined in the light of sociolinguistic factors. The study is centred on the real factors that influence language use in a multilingual environment bearing in mind the background of the participants involved in the communication and the linguistic competences of the speakers? The research is based on the ideas from theoreticians like Labov (variationnism), Hymes (Communicative competence) and Weinreich ...
ABSTRACT The study is centered on difficulties associated with the use of the subordinating conjunction que in the French language. The purpose (of the study) was to identify some specific errors made by learners of French and the possible causes related to the use of the conjunction in order to propose techniques and strategies of teaching it. The Contrastive Analysis (CA) and Error Analysis (EA) based on the behaviorist and cognitive theories respectively were used to explain the causes of...