Chinese Learners’ Mistakes in the Acquisition of French: Case of Tenseserb Tenses

Abstract

The mastery of grammatical categories is a very important aspect in the acquisition of foreign languages in general and contrastive linguistics in particular. Tenses in French are important part of French grammar. Non-Mastery of these tenses may lead to mistakes and even misunderstanding especially with French verb lexemes. Their confusion by Chinese learners often leads to mistakes. This paper uses descriptive method to analyze some of the mistakes Chinese learners are prone to making while speaking or writing French language.