waecE-LEARNING
French Paper 2, May/June 2012  
Questions:               Main
General Comments
Weakness/Remedies
Strength
Candidates' weakness

(1)   Most of the candidates did not answer the question ouverte of Listening    
       Comprehension.
(2)  Some of the candidates could not express themselves properly in Conversation     
       test due to lack of vocabulary. Some of them could not distinguish between
      Comment vas-tu? and Comment tu t’appelle? Some answered Exposition
questions in English Language.
     (3)  In the Reading segment, most of the candidates could not read the passages well.    
           French words that looked like English words were pronounced with English
          pronunciation eg. Portable,
    population, accès,
   ressource, contamination,
   famille etc.
  Most of them found it difficult to pronounce words like;
 écoliers, qualité,
dangereuse, Malheureusement,
 obligés typhoïde.

    

The rule of liaison was not observed where necessary

.          SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

(1)     Teachers of French should practice all aspects of Oral French with the students
         before the examination. They should also drill the students more on question    
         ouverte.
(2)    Teachers should encourage the students to give their responses in French during
        classes. They should expose the students to more drills on spoken French.
(3)   They should be more involved in the teaching of the basic grammatical rules at each
        lesson.
(4)   They should encourage the students to read French novels and journals to acquire
        more vocabulary.

 

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