Tenses often confused by burundian english learners at the upper level of secondary schools case of second form arts in some selected schools in Ngozi Province
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Bibliothèque Centrale | 81-366.58 NDI.2018 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Not For Loan | 5010000498283 |
A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree "Licencié en pédagogie Appliquée, Agrégé de l'Enseignement Secondaire en Anglais".
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This study investigated the tenses often confused by Burundian English Learners at the upper level of secondary school, precisely in 2nd Form Arts. This work was conducted in Ngozi Province where 6 schooms of 3 selected communes were visited.
The purpose of this work was to identify and describe the tense errors made by 2nd Form Arts learners and to discover their causes. While conducting this investifation, thre Kinds of research instruments were used to enable the researcher to colled data; that is bothers' and learners' questionnaire, classroom observation and oral and writen tests. In data analysis, charts were used for teachers' and learners' questionnaire. At the end, it was discovered that Burundian English learners often confuse the use of the present perfect and the simple past, the simple past and the past perfect continuous and the past perfect, and that the possible causes of such errors and confusions were ignoranc of the grammar rules in the construction of sentences that requires change of tenses, interference with French, environmental influence, laziness, non-practice of speaking and overgeneralization, to name but a few.
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