ABSTRACT Several studies have been devoted to the narratives of Camara Laye. None of them, as far as we have been able to determine, has examined his novels as a unit whole, with the same protagonist who changes his name from time to time only to reflect the level of his spiritual and psychological attainment. This thesis contends that the novels of Camara Laye, that is L'Enfant noir, Le Regard du roi and Dramouss, seen as the creations of the imagination of the one and only mind of the autho...
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 coll...
ABSTRACT The Importance of African Literature in a Class Teaching French as a Foreign Language (FFL) in Ghanaian universities. Ghana's geographical position in relation to the surrounding French-speaking countries could be one of the main reasons for teaching/learning French. Learning a foreign language not only enables the acquisition of language competence but also provides a means of bringing the learner into contact with other realities of life, other social values, other forms and ways ...
This thesis has attempted to analyse areas of difficulties of students in the use of the three types of ‘liaison’ in the French language. Practically, in verbal speeches and reading liaison is considered one of the most important aspects of the language which learners of French as a Foreign Language find difficult to master. This research specifically aims at finding out the difficulties encountered by the learners regarding the use of the three (3) « consonnes de liaison /z/, /t/, ...
ABSTRACT In this work, we explore how mother-daughter relationships are portrayed in Ken Bugul’s De l’autre côté du regard (2003) and Calixthe Bayala’s Le roman de Pauline (2009). It was our aim to determine whether these relationships are always characterized by conflict, and if so, to determine which factors led to the conflict. We also wanted to find out if the works were inspired by the authors’ personal lives and to determine if the relationships of mothers with their daughter...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study has been to provide information on the correct use of morphograms by learners of French in some selected schools in the Accra Metropolis. The problem for investigation is to state to what extent lack of knowledge of the correct use of morphograms has impeded the written production of learners of French and the impact on their use of French in communication as a whole. The study was conducted in three schools namely: Achimota SHS, PRESEC- Legon and Accra Gir...
ABSTRACT Looking at its geographical location, Ghana which is an Anglophone country is surrounded by francophone countries. This is a major factor for which great attention should be given to the French language. In the framework of the sub-regional integration policy initiated by ECOWAS, there is free movement of people and wealth from one country to the other. In view of that, we assume that some key Ghanaian administrative sectors should have their personnel trained in French for specific ...
ABSTRACT This study is centered on the difficulties students of Nungua Senior High School, Accra, encounter in the use of the personal pronoun «en». The analysis of the data collected through questionnaires, interviews and test items with respect to students performance is confined within the context of its partitive and quantitative use as well as the variety of functions it performs within sentences. In the light of the data analysed, the study ident ified that most students studying Fren...
ABSTRACT This research analysed the oral discourse of final year students of the Department of French of the University of Cape Coast. The students used for the study were those who studied French as a single major course for the first degree. These students were seventeen in all out of the total number of final year French students. The analysis is intended to study how coherence is achieved in the oral discourse of the students by the use of transitional markers. To undertake this research,...
ABSTRACT In translation documents, translators are often confronted with challenges during the process. One of such problems he may face arise from the fact that some words or phrases provide various meanings in different communicating situations and finding equivalence becomes a problem. The purpose of this study is to investigate the issue of grammatical and structural equivalence in translation. A text translated from French into English will serve as our corpus for examining the forms of ...
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...