Banca de DEFESA: PAULO RICARDO DE ANDRADE SOBRAL

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STUDENT : PAULO RICARDO DE ANDRADE SOBRAL
DATE: 28/02/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Sala virtual do Google Meet
TITLE:

THE NULL SUBJECT AND NULL OBJECT PARAMETERS IN THE CONTEXT OF FRENCH AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING-LEARNING

KEY WORDS:

French as foreign language. Generative Linguistics. Null subject. Null object. Grammar Teaching-learning.

PAGES: 94
BIG AREA: Lingüística, Letras e Artes
AREA: Lingüística
SUBÁREA: Teoria e Análise Lingüística
SUMMARY:

This research is anchored in two main areas: Generative Linguistics and the teaching-learning of French as a Foreign Language (FLE). She starts from the observation that some grammatical compendia and teaching materials (such as Pedagogical Grammars and Textbooks) do not tend to adequately address some French orality phenomena, such as null subjects and null objects, which are increasingly recurrent in contemporary French. As a general objective, we seek to investigate the manifestation of null arguments (null subjects and null objects) within the scope of FLE teaching-learning. As specific objectives, we seek to (a) identify how the parameters of the Null Subject and Null Object are described in contemporary French, (b) verify how the teaching of these linguistic phenomena has been carried out based on the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR) and their reflections in grammatical compendia and FLE textbooks and (c) contribute to the empirical basis of these parameters with the collection and quantitative-qualitative analysis of a corpus composed of excerpts from FLE Textbooks and French Pedagogical Grammars, containing sentence structures composed of null subjects and null objects. Therefore, this research serves as a combination of the quantitative approach and the qualitative approach. Methodologically, the following steps were adopted: (a) the elaboration of data selection criteria, (b) the constitution of a corpus, (c) the analysis of frequency of the linguistic phenomena studied and (d) the critical comparison of results obtained. As results obtained, it is observed that French is not a typical language of null subjects, but it is possible to verify the phonetic omission of the expletive pronoun il, especially in oral contexts. Leeman (2006) argues that the phonetic omission of subjects in French is rare, but there is no doubt that the subject may be omitted in this language and that, therefore, this phenomenon must be described in grammars. As for the Null Object Parameter, it is observed with Cummins and Roberge (2005) that there are five distinct types of null objects in French contemporary: (a) Null Objects recovered by clitics, (b) Null Objects without visible clitics, (c) Generic or stereotypical Null Objects, (d) Null Objects contextual and (e) deictic Null Objects. The CEFR, in turn, has limitations methodologies and a lack of detail in the categorization of the component grammatical, making foreign language teaching and learning unfeasible emerging linguistic phenomena. With regard to the presence of Subjects Nulls in the LDs analyzed, despite presenting compound sentence structures of null subjects, in the book Édito C1 – Méthode de Français (Les Éditions Didier, 2018) there are no activities or explanations about this linguistic phenomenon in no didactic units; already in Défi C1 – Méthode de Français (Éditions Maison des Langues, 2021), a small explanatory table brings together information about informal records, mentioning the omission of the pronoun il, but without delving into the phenomenon. Regarding the presence of Null Objects in the analyzed LDs, it appears that there are no sections (nor activities) dedicated to the study of the omission of objects in French in none of the textbooks analyzed. Regarding the analysis carried out in pedagogical grammars, it is observed that they fail to present adequately the phonetic omission of subjects and objects in French.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - DOROTHY BEZERRA SILVA DE BRITO
Interna - MARCELA MOURA TORRES PAIM
Externa ao Programa - 1551250 - CLAUDIA ROBERTA TAVARES SILVA - UFRPE