La prononciation des voyelles orales anterieures arrondies françaises ([Y], [Ø] Et [Œ]) par les apprenants tem de Ahamansu Islamic Senior High School

Abstract

Based on the observation that French as a Foreign Language (FFL) learners in Ghana in general and learners from Ahamansu Islamic Senior High School in particular have difficulty in producing certain French vowels, to be specific, the rounded front oral vowels: [y], [ø] and [œ], we believe it is important to conduct a study that will enable us to discover the origin of this problem. To do this, we conduct a comparative study of the phonological system of French, the target language, that of english, the official and teaching language from primary and that of tèm (kotokoli), the learners´ mother tongue, by relying on the following theories: Contrastive analysis, Error analysis. These theories as well as the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the questionnaire and the reading test enabled us to face the facts of phonetics and phonological difference between the three languages that we believe to be the cause of these difficulties. This research aims; in fact, at helping both Ghanaian teachers and students to master the phonetic and phonology system of French by offering several means of phonetic correction that can be applied to each error, while taking into account the needs of each learner.