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Item Analyse De L’interaction Verbale En Classe De Fle Au Lycée Ghanéen(Akofena, 2021) Bakah, E.K.; Agbo, J.K.This study analyses verbal interaction in the French as Foreign Language (FFL) class by focusing on phenomena such as choice of theme, turn taking, speaking time and interruptions as established by Kerbrat- Orecchini (1992). The study adopts mainly qualitative analysis but also relies on some quantitative data. The target population includes 95 learners of FFL comprising 63 females and 32 males selected from three senior high schools in Ghana. Data have been collected through audiovisual recordings in the schools. The results show that teachers engage and support learner participation through personal and impersonal themes. In addition, learners record a slightly higher level of turn taking than their teachers. However, teachers talk more and interrupt mostly students’ turns although the interruptions do not interfere with the flow of the verbal interaction in class.Item Analyse des alternances codiques dans la production orale des futurs enseignants en classe de français langue étrangère (FLE) a l’école normale supérieure de Somanya au Ghana(2021) Agbo, J.K.This research focuses on code switching in the oral presentation of trainee teachers in French as a foreign language (FLE) class. The study seeks to examine how future teachers deploy code switching as an oral communication strategy during FLE. To draw on the intricacies of this phenomenon, this study adopts a mixed approach (quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The instruments used for data collection include questionnaire and audiovisual recording. The target population of our study includes 77 learners from the Mount Mary College of Education Somanya in Ghana. The results of the quantitative analysis serve as clues to comprehend and appreciate the intensification of the alternate use of the two languages (French and English) in oral presentation. Moreover, the articulation of the two approaches, macro and micro, allows us to highlight the functions of code alternation both in the epilinguistic discourse of the speakers than in their actual language practices. The study also shows that code switching is a way of speaking, which in our investigations contributes on the one hand to the development of the verbal repertoire in interaction and leads to code convergence. On the other hand, it fulfills several functions such as serving as a stylistic strategy and a resource for regulating turns during a speech event.Item Analyse Des Stratégies De Communication Orale Des Futurs Enseignants En Classe De Fle A L’école Normale Supérieure De Somanya Au Ghana(Collection FLE/FLA, 2021) Agbo, J.K.; Ayi-Adziman, D.K.This work aims to analyze the oral communication strategies that Ghanaian learners of French implement to overcome their difficulties in communication situations in French classes. The objective of this work is to study and analyze the main oral communication strategies deployed by learners of at the Mount Mary College of Education, Somanya. In this perspective, we examined different oral communication strategies used by learners using a mixed approach of data analysis which is both quantitative and qualitative: audiovisual recording and a questionnaire. To complete the questionnaire, 77 students including 53 women and 24 men volunteered. Regarding the audiovisual recording we called on volunteers and 38 students: 13 men and 25 women were recorded from a tablet. Analysis of the data revealed that the oral communication strategies used by learners of French are: message abandonment, explanation, foreignising, repetition, word-for-word translation. The results obtained serve as a basis for future theoretical reflections and as a guide for the identification of oral communication strategies in French class.Item Perceptions and attitudes of secretaryship & management studies students towards teaching and learning of French in the Ho Technical University, Ghana(Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020) Agbo, J.K.; Fiadzawoo, J.K.; Agama, J.A.This study examines the perceptions and the attitudes of students towards the teaching and learning of French in the Ho Technical University. Online questionnaire was used to collect data from 94 students who were purposively selected from the Department of Secretaryship & Management Studies. The descriptive survey research design was employed to elicit information from respondents through an online platform. The data was analyzed quantitatively and was presented using frequency counts and percentages. The study revealed that most of the respondents (90%) perceived learning of French language to be difficult or very difficult and the majority 54(57.5% had difficulty in oral expressions. It was also revealed that more than half of the respondents, 24(25.5%) and 37(39.4%) either agreed or strongly agreed that they have strong desires to learn French and believed that the knowledge of the language is key to job avenues. The study recommends to French lecturers to use innovative methods to motivate their students and as well, institutions and curriculum planners are advised to create opportunities for constant practice of the language and provide learning materials to enhance students’ learning.