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

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  • Tsaknaki

    (Olympia Department of French, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

  • Charles Omboto

Abstract

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 (ÎšÏ Î±Ï„Î¹ÎºÏŒ Πιστοποιητικό Γλωσσομάθειας, ΚΠΓ). 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).

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  • Tsaknaki & Charles Omboto, 2022. "Some Reflections on Reference in the Teaching of French as a Foreign Language Context," European Journal of Education Articles, Revistia Research and Publishing, vol. 5, ejed_v5_i.
    • Handle: RePEc:eur:ejedjr:118
    DOI: 10.26417/ejed.v2i3.p47-50
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