Functional and Frequent Vocabularies in French Language method Alter Ego and their degree of assimilation among Iranian learners

Foreign language learner at all levels seeks to develop his competence in general, and his lexical competence before all other competencies. The language teacher also, often seeks to ensure a better teaching. In order to, language teacher has a strong interest to slove the difficulties of his/ her learners in order to correct the lack presented by the main support she/ he uses. Thus, this finding has been the current starting point of this research. In this context, the aim of this paper is to identify frequent and functional vocabularies in the Alter Ego. This may lead to locate the difficulty of using these vocabularies among Iranian learners. The result will so help the Iranian learners develop their lexical competence if it is embodied in the process of vocabulary teaching. In this article, a quantitative analysis of the frequent and functional vocabulary of Alter Ego level A1 was performed. The degree of vocabularies assimilation of 40 Iranian adult learners level A1, presented in this method was then measured by closed, half-open and open tests. According to the results, we realized that Iranian learners assimilate and use functional vocabularies on the scale of "good". The observed results show that the problem is always at the most frequent grammatical words.