A CONSTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND BETTE GRAMMAR

Abstract

Bette native speakers who learn English as L₂ most of the time have difficulties in learning the morphological and syntactical structures of the second language. The difficulties arise from the evidence of differences between the structures of the acquired and learnt languages. The challenges the L₂ learner encounters are the focus of this research. That is to bring out the differences between the structures of the L₁ and those of L₂ as they pertain to Bette and English languages using the contrastive analysis theory. The study concentrated only on a few aspects of the morphology and syntax of the languages under study. The analysis reveals that the contrastive analysis leads to error analysis as the differences and difficulties lead to numerous errors in the process of learning L₂; that the knowledge of L₁ interferes with the study and mastery of L₂. It is therefore pertinent that curriculum planners take cognizance of those challenges so as to proffer solutions to how the difficulties should be tackled for effective teaching and learning.