Open AccessChinese Learners’ Mistakes in the Acquisition of French: Case of Verb Tenses
Author(s) -
Guemkam Ouafo Diane Armelle
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
world journal of social science research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2375-9747
pISSN - 2332-5534
DOI - 10.22158/wjssr.v5n2p201
Subject(s) - linguistics , mistake , verb , lexeme , grammar , confusion , foreign language , psychology , computer science , philosophy , political science , law , psychoanalysis
The mastery of grammatical categories is a very important aspect during the acquisition of foreign languages in general, and in particular contrastive linguistics. Verb tenses in French are important part of speech grammar. Non-Mastery of them may cause second language acquisition mistake and misunderstanding especially in French with the verb lexeme. Their confusion by Chinese learners leads to mistakes. This paper uses descriptive method to analyze Chinese learners’ mistake in French speaking and writing.