Problématique de la production écrite chez les élèves de seconde au Lycée Guèbre Mariam d'Addis-Abeba
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2026-04-30
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Addis Ababa University
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The study aimed to identify the difficulties encountered by second-year students at Lycée Guèbre
Mariam in Addis Ababa in terms of written production. The study sample consisted of students from
the secondary school during the 2016 academic year. The study was conducted with 20 students,
using a written production test to collect data. In addition to the tests conducted with the students,
questionnaires were administered to the teachers of the second-year class at Lycée Guèbre Mariam
to obtain more reliable results. The conclusions of the study highlighted significant difficulties
encountered by students in the area of written production in French as a foreign language.
Specifically, students showed difficulties in generating ideas, structuring them logically, choosing
appropriate words, as well as frequent errors in spelling and grammar, in addition to a lack of
confidence. This study, based on the analysis of researchers' theories and the corpus of students in
the French language, involved questionnaires aimed at teachers of the second-year class at Lycée
Guèbre Mariam. The results allowed the researcher to make suggestions to overcome the obstacles
encountered in learning written production in French as a foreign language. The recommendations
from this study aim to improve and expand students' written production skills by developing their
writing techniques and strategies in French as a foreign language. Suggestions include increasing
writing practice, improving vocabulary, receiving feedback and support from teachers, learning
planning and organizational techniques, as well as reading to enrich their knowledge and exposure
to quality writing. Teacher comments were also taken into account, highlighting the challenges
encountered by students and the factors that influence their writing performance. In response to these
results, targeted interventions were recommended, including explicit instruction on writing
techniques, creating a learning environment conducive to writing practice, and a communicative
approach to strengthen the written production skills of second-year students.
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Written production, French as a foreign language (FLE), secondary school students, writing difficulties, spelling and grammar errors, teaching strategies, Lycée Guèbre Mariam.