How to teach French past tenses (1)
Comment enseigner les tiroirs du passé en français (1)
The purpose of this paper is to suggest a more methodical and efficient means to make Korean high school students understand the usages of two French past tenses, viz passé composé and imparfait. The paper shows that these two tenses are distributed in a complementary way on textual level, and that two conceptual devices developed by Weinrich, foreground and middle ground, can be useful for the teachers' teaching skills. The paper also discusses the anaphoricity, redefined and remodulated by Berthonneau and Kleiber on the semantico-pragmatic basis, for a new means of teaching French past tenses.