Student Language Production Difficulties With Essay

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com). Having English sound 'stressed' correctly is often a challenge for French speakers.

Compared with some other languages, French and English have fairly similar grammatical structures. Both languages, for example, have auxiliary verbs, participles, active/passive voice, past/present/future tenses. But "there are frequent occasions when French uses a different tense to convey a particular meaning than English. Some common examples are the following faulty sentences: I have played tennis yesterday. I can't play now. I do my homework. I live in London since last year. I will tell you as soon as I will know" (Vu 2008).

Difficulties in English dialects may also pose a challenge to French speakers who have learned English in a 'normalized' fashion, denuded of regional accents. "Variation in English presents considerable challenge to schools, grounded as they are in standard English norms" (Adger 2009).

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French speakers, who have heard English mostly from television and in school, may find the dizzying array of American accents puzzling to interpret. English is a less regular language than French, but there is an official standard grammar in France, while Americans use their language with more official and unofficial fluidity. English is quicker to embrace change than French, and French speakers may experience frustration with English's wide vocabulary, irregularities, and regional differences of sound and idiomatic expressions. Something as simple as a sandwich can be referred to by an American as a hoagie, sub, or grinder, depending what area of the country the speaker is from, even though the words all refer to the same item. The same is true with Coke, pop, and soda.

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