Date of Award

3-1937

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Foreign Languages and Literatures

First Advisor

George E. Vander Beke

Abstract

In 1931 a committee was appointed by the French section of the Association of Modern Language Teachers of the Central West and South to undertake the task of securing a basic French vocabulary list which was to be designed to meet the teaching needs of American schools and which, it was hoped, would become basic for the construction of elementary textbooks and of tests and for the editing of graded reading texts. The list, containing 2753 items, was finally submitted as "A Basic French Vocabulary" - suggested as basic for the two-year course in high schools and for the first year in college.

The purpose of this thesis is to provide "A Basic French Vocabulary" with English equivalents and with the principal parts and irregular forms of all irregular verbs. Only common meanings are given, for, as it is, there are as many as twenty English equivalents to one French word. If technical and figurative meanings were included, this work would appear more like a dictionary; however, the teacher may either designate which meanings he intends his pupils to learn or supply the additional equivalents.

Comments

A Thesis submitted, to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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