Proposal for helping the french and mandarin chinese learners in visualising tense and aspect

Auteur(s) :	FANG lih-juang Lalicc - Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne
Résumé	The expression of the abstract concepts like Tense and Aspect present a special challenge for Chinese learning a western language and westerners learning Chinese. The reasons for this lie in the radically different resources used by the respective languages to code this information. I present here some initial results, a visual language, with the goal to help the learner to overcome the conceptual facets of the problem.
Mots-clés	Tense, aspect, visual representation of meta-linguistic knowledge, computer assisted language learni