Communication orale dans l'interaction didactique, le cas des étudiants de Mount Mary College of Education, Somanya, Ghana

Using French as the main communication tool in didactical interactions is challenging to learners
of French as a foreign language. The effect of this is the assertion that French language is 
difficult to learn. The purpose of this study is to analyse some of the difficulties encountered by 
students of Mount Mary College of Education, Somanya, Ghana in their attempt to communicate 
orally in French during lessons. The study will permit us to suggest measures to improve upon 
their effectiveness in using French as a communication tool in teaching and learning. The study 
is conducted with a total number of 85 students in the third year and 8 teachers of the French 
Department of Mount Mary College of Education, Somanya. Questionnaire administered to 
teachers as well as recorded lessons were the research tools used in collecting data. The data 
collected is analyzed by examining the length of discourses, pronunciation, repetitions, silence 
and linguistic errors among others. The major findings of the study are that learners, often 
abandon their discourses, omit words, borrow English expressions and make a lot of grammatical 
errors. The causes of these difficulties are diagnosed to be, lack of vocabulary, poor application 
of morphosyntactic rules; negative transfer of English expressions to French, poor learning 
strategies among others. 
Keywords : Communication, didactical interaction, oral discourses