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L’enseignement et l’apprentissage de la conjugaison en FLE: comment réduire les difficultés engendrées par l’orthographe
Auteur(s)
Surcouf, Christian
Date de parution
2011
In
Revue Tranel (Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique), Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel, 2011/54//93-112
Résumé
French verb morphology has always been a major challenge for learners as well as teachers of French as a foreign language. Learning difficulties arise not only from the inherent complexity of the conjugation system itself, but mostly from the traditional description found in specialized books, grammars, etc. French spelling alone tends to complexify the actual oral verb morphology by more than 60%, thus hindering efficient learning. Following Dubois (1967), Csécsy (1968), Pouradier Duteil (1997), etc., I suggest an alternative approach, <i>exclusively</i> based on phonetic transcription, and starting with plural forms instead of singular ones (Mayer 1969). For more than 500 verbs of the 2nd and 3rd groups, this strategy allows learners to first memorize the present tense plural form e.g. /illiz/ (<i>ils lisent</i>, "they read") and take the stem’s final consonant away to get the singular /illi/ (<i>il lit</i>, "he reads").
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