L’analyse Sémantique et Syntaxique de la Reformulation Orale et Écrite des Étudiants de Français de L’université du Ghana

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to identify some of the most common grammatical errors committed by French as Foreign Language Learners of the University of Ghana, French Department. These errors are identified by analyzing the written and spoken reformulated texts of the students. The analysis focused on doing a semantic and syntactic analysis of these reformulated texts using the error analysis and the reformulation theory. The research is particularly relevant in the field of applied linguistics in helping teachers identify the weakness of students when it comes to the application of semantic and syntactic rules in learning French as a foreign language. It is in the same regard helpful to students in identifying their loop holes in producing accurate French after their academic period. The research was carried out by reading out a text from the princess and the frog and allowing students to retell the story either verbally or orally. After the research it was found out that students commit more errors in their written productions than in their oral productions.