Difficulté d’emploi des déterminants possessifs son sa en fle. Le cas des apprenants d’Ekumfi T.I. Ahmadiyya SHS, Essarkyir.

Abstract

This research aims at investigating the difficulties encountered by SHS2 learners of Ekumfi T.I. Ahmadiyyah Senior High School regarding the use of possessive determiners in written French. Our main objective is to expose the difficulties related to the use of possessive determiners by learners of French as a foreign language. The theories on which our research is based are Structuralist Theory, Distributionnalisme, Contrastive analysis and Language transfer. We have used a sample of 52 learners in General Arts2 et Home Economics (GA, & HE). Six (6) French teachers of Ekumfi T.I. Ahmaddiyya Senior High School also participated in the study. A test for learners and a questionnaire for teachers serves as the data collection tools. The analysis has revealed that majority of learners have difficulties in using possessive determiners in sentences. They use these determiners without considering their relationships with the nouns or pronouns they possessed in the sentence. The data revealed that learners do not express themselves at all or a little in French Language. The data showed that learners dislike teaching and learning of French and thereby participate passively in French lesson. The data also revealed that the traditional methods of teaching was employed in teaching French grammar lessons which impede learners’ participation in terms of classrooms’ interactions and communications. The findings showed that the proposed pedagogical approches in teaching used to help learners during the intervention was very effective and efficient. It was suggested that learners practise the language both within and outside of the classroom in light of these findings. It was again recommended that teachers should adopt the Communicative and Action-Oriented Approaches of teaching to assist learners to overcome their difficulties with French grammar, especially with the use of the possessive determiners.