Étude syntaxico-sémantique des prépositions dans et en par les apprenants du fle au niveau shs le cas des apprenants de Ghana senior high school tamale et tamale girls senior high school

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the difficulties in the use of the prepositions en and dans by learners in the two senior high schools, Ghana Senior School Tamale (Ghanasco), and Tamale Girls Senior School (TGSHS). Learners at that level are challenged in the use of these two prepositions due to the similarities of their meanings in English grammar. Eighty (80) students offering French were sampled though simple random sampling and the data was solicited by administering questionnaires. The results showed that the prepositions en et dans are ambigious and present more pitfalls in the knowledge and handling of the constituent rules of French grammar. Specifically, the results reveal that while about 25% of the students could identify en et dans as prepositions in French, as high as approxatively 75% admitted that their usage were very confusing. About 73% of the students also showed poor interest in the learning of the language. The study also finds that 75% of the French teachers teach in English. Hence a good application of the grammar in the bases of French as Foreign Language ((FLE), the learner must broaden their learning interest of the subject by laying a more solid foundation that will allow them an opener of the grammatical system in all forms. This could be achieved if government could make French compulsory from the basic level. Heads of SHS should also monitor to ensure that French is taught in French in order to enhance familiarity to the language. Finally, there should also be a frequent periodical training to revive/ update the teachers that will enable them to be current in order to effectively deliver.