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Title
Difficulties in Identifying the English Determiner System among EFL Students in Ghana: The Case of Francophone Students.
Creator
Michael O Tabiri, Ivy Jones-Mensah, Angel E Kongo, Gifty Budu
Description
The paper aims at discussing the difficulties that students from French speaking countries who are pursuing their education in a Ghanaian university face in identifying English determiners. This is a qualitative study that analysed the difficulties that level 100 Francophone students who have French as a Second Language(L2) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in a Ghanaian university face in identifying English determiners. The data used for the analysis comprised students' written exercises. The data gathered in the study were analysed qualitatively. The theoretical framework on which this research is based is article-focused theory which is discourse rule transfer propounded by Robertson (2000) as well as the semantic model developed by Huebner (1983), known as the "semantic wheel for noun phrase reference". The findings of the study depict that pre determiners, central determiners and post determiners were found in the data analysed. Central determiners recorded the
Publisher
Pegem Academy Publishing and Educational Guidance Services TLC. Mesrutiyet Caddesi, No: 45, Ankara, Kizilay 06420, Turkey
Date
2022
Source
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=c6aHdPkAAAAJ&citation_for_view=c6aHdPkAAAAJ:roLk4NBRz8UC
Language
English