LINGUISTIC INTERFERENCE: A CASE OF HAUSA LANGUAGE SPEAKERS IN LEARNING FRENCH GRAMMAR GENDER

Authors

  • Lateef A. Ajani Nigeria French language village, Ajara-Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria
  • Sodiq Ibrahim Hausa Department Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Oto/Ijanikin, Lagos State, Nigeria

Keywords:

Linguistic interference, gender, noun, errors, mastering, impart

Abstract

French and Hausa languages are both highly gender sensitive and this is so because gender plays a significant role in offering more explanations on the agreement between nouns and their modifiers. The main focus of this paper is to examine the impact of Hausa gender with a reference to inanimate nouns and its implication on mastery of French nouns most especially French inanimate nouns among Hausa learners of French language in Nigeria.

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Published

2021-01-12

Issue

Vol. 8 (2017)

Section

Articles