Kontrastive Analyse: Zur Verbalen Flexion Im Deutschen Und in Der Ewe Sprache

Abstract

"Mother tongue forbidden!" This is the challenging prohibition that most kindergarten teachers and first graders of my generation have been granted. It has become a truism that effective foreign language learning is based on a good mastery of the mother tongue or the first language, which, according to this project, should be the teaching language. This basic prerequisite is not always fulfilled, especially in rural areas. The Ewe language is a language that is spoken in West Africa for instance in Togo, Benin and Ghana. The Fact is that there are many languages which have not been studied and are dying away. The African languages are also barely taught in schools in west African Countries mentioned above. One of the problems of this decision is to know which languages should be taught. The Ewe language is one of the most influential languages in West Africa which are supposed to be introduced in the education system. The research project aims to study verbal inflection in the German und Ewe Language. The theoretical part of the work looks at the of contrastive analysis theory. It shows why it is important to study the verbal inflection in the German and Ewe Language and that will lead this project to find out what the resemblances and dissemblance in verb inflection are. The project then proposes the use of descriptive contrastive analysis model for analyzing the verbal inflection in the language and will be based first on the Tenses, secondly aspects and furthermore mode. The project does not in any way look at the Ewe Language from a negative perspective but it highlights and trys to show the verb inflection system. This would not only contribute to enhancing the learning process but would also promote local languages thus preventing them from becoming extinct and the foreign language learning in general from playing a role in the global language extinction.