Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System

This paper attempts to consider the underlying assumptions and rationale behind the contrastive analysis hypothesis (CA). It also considers the CA hypothesis as a methodological tool in teaching the French sound system to Malay learners. The paper discusses specifically the various controversial cl...

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Main Author: Zainab Binti Abdul Majid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaya 2017-07-01
Series:Journal of Modern Languages
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Online Access:https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3966
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description This paper attempts to consider the underlying assumptions and rationale behind the contrastive analysis hypothesis (CA). It also considers the CA hypothesis as a methodological tool in teaching the French sound system to Malay learners. The paper discusses specifically the various controversial claims made for CA and its implications on pedagogy, in addition to study the direct application of CA as a possible linguistic strategy in predicting and locating phonological errors among Malay learners of French as a foreign language.
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spelling doaj-art-1b9ce9c14d4f40648bf1043875bc5e922024-11-25T18:59:36ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862017-07-0121Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound SystemZainab Binti Abdul Majid0University of Malaya, Malaysia This paper attempts to consider the underlying assumptions and rationale behind the contrastive analysis hypothesis (CA). It also considers the CA hypothesis as a methodological tool in teaching the French sound system to Malay learners. The paper discusses specifically the various controversial claims made for CA and its implications on pedagogy, in addition to study the direct application of CA as a possible linguistic strategy in predicting and locating phonological errors among Malay learners of French as a foreign language. https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3966Contrastive analysis; teaching French; Malay learners
spellingShingle Zainab Binti Abdul Majid
Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System
Journal of Modern Languages
Contrastive analysis; teaching French; Malay learners
title Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System
title_full Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System
title_fullStr Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System
title_full_unstemmed Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System
title_short Contrastive Analysis and the Teaching of the French Sound System
title_sort contrastive analysis and the teaching of the french sound system
topic Contrastive analysis; teaching French; Malay learners
url https://ijps.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/3966
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