Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences (20392117)3(3)pp. 155-160
This article is a general overview on the problems that stand in the way of Iranian adult learners of French. The article introduces the linguistic background of learners as one of the factors causing problems for them. English, the language they learnt during school years, and Persian, their mother tongue, are introduced as the main sources of these problems and this is because of the differences they have with French. The problems are categorized into three categories of discriminating phonemes and segmenting words, pronouncing and writing adjectives and finally pronouncing and writing verbs. Attempt has been made to offer some solutions for the existing problems as well. Teaching phonemes meticulously from the very outset of training can be one of the solutions to this problem. As the next step, after acquiring some preliminary skills by learners, teachers should focus on some other aspects including self correction and self monitoring exercises. They should also ask learners to record their voice and listen to it and to guess the meaning from context.
