L’analyse du contexte comme outil didactique efficace dans la compréhension de la différence d’emploi du passé composé imperfectif et passé composé perfectif par les apprenants slaves

• Published in: Academic Journal of Modern Philology no. 20; pp. 155 - 166
• Main Author: Puchovská, Zuzana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: French
• Published: Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch 2023; Komisja Nauk Filologicznych Oddziału Polskiej Akademii Nauk we Wrocławiu
• Subjects: Foreign languages learning; Language acquisition; Western Slavic Languages; achèvement; accomplissement; contextual analysis; corpus; passé composé; verbal aspect
• ISSN: 2299-7164; 2353-3218

The author focuses on the topic of the passé composé and the expression of the verbal aspect in the French language and in the Slovak and Polish languages. She examines the potential of contextual analysis of the passé composé in the perception of the difference between what she calls the passé composé perfectif and the passé composé imperfectif. From the contrastive perspective of the French language versus the two Slavic languages, she examines the notions of achèvement and accomplissement linked to the aspectual interpretation of the passé composé and finds that only the intra-phrastic context of the passé composé enables learners to better master the dual use of this tense in French. The author bases her argument on the corpora of minimal sentences from which the teacher and the learners of the French language can establish the contextual elements allowing to differentiate between the two uses in question.