ASPECT VERBAL, PSYCHOGÉNÈSE ET ENSEIGNEMENT DU TEMPS EN FRANÇAIS
VERBAL ASPECT, PSYCHOGENESIS AND TENSE TEACHING IN FRENCH

Summary/Abstract: Verbal Aspect, Psychogenesis and Tense Teaching in French. This article comes from a teacher’s observation: the failure to teach the French conjugation and the verbal forms. On the other hand, teaching leaves out the distinction between the unaccomplished aspect and the accomplished aspect of the verb, which forms the basis of the distinction between simple and compound tenses. However, the psychogenesis of verbal tenses shows us that aspect is the linguistic mirror of the time of the action and the linguistic crucible of the time representation of an epoch. Only the constructivist approach, which joins Jean Piaget’s genetic psychology and Gustave Guillaume’s psychosystems of language, allows a new proposal on the teaching of tense and conjugation in French, one that responds to the child’s development and to the way he/she constructs his/her own mother tongue.

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