Some Reflections on Reference in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language Context

Grammatical and lexical cohesion are necessary conditions to guarantee a text's coherence (Halliday and Hasan 1976). Grammatical cohesion is classified into four types of relation: reference, conjunction, substitution, and ellipsis. This study aims to investigate the use of the cohesive device...

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Published inEuropean Journal of Education (EJE) Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 67 - 78
Main Author Tsaknaki, Olympia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Revistia 2022
Subjects
Adults
Computational Linguistics
Connected Discourse
Difficulty Level
Foreign Countries
Form Classes (Languages)
French
Grammar
Greek
Guidelines
Language Proficiency
Language Tests
Language Usage
National Competency Tests
Native Language
Nouns
Phrase Structure
Rating Scales
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Secondary School Students
Undergraduate Students
Writing Evaluation
Writing Skills
Writing Tests
Greece
Europe
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Summary:Grammatical and lexical cohesion are necessary conditions to guarantee a text's coherence (Halliday and Hasan 1976). Grammatical cohesion is classified into four types of relation: reference, conjunction, substitution, and ellipsis. This study aims to investigate the use of the cohesive device of reference in written discourse produced by users/learners of French as a foreign language, to explore the kind of references they prefer and to highlight the difficulties they come across. Our study is based on a learner corpus composed of written productions of Greek-speaking users/learners of French who participated in National Foreign Language Exam System ([foreign characters]). We used a sample of texts produced by candidates who participated in the examination willing to be certified at the levels B (Independent user) and C (Proficient user) of language proficiency according to the 6-level scale of the "Common European Framework of Reference for Languages" (Council of Europe 2001).
ISSN:2601-8616