the effect of interference in committing syntactic errors in writing of arab learners of persian rezvan motavallian naeini

one of the problems of learners that often impairs learning a second language is syntactic errors. therefore, the present study investigates the syntactic errors of arab speakers learning persian. this research is based on contrastive analysis approach. in this article, interlingual syntactic errors committed in learner’s writings are studied, using field method and through a content analysis of 105 written texts of persian learners of arab speakers. interlingual errors are those which are due to first language interference. the testees' age was between 22 and 26 and they were from three levels of proficiency (elementry, intermediate and advanced). they were selected randomly from the center of persian training in qom. six cases of interlingual errors were identified and analyzed, which based on frequency degree, respectively, consist of ordering errors, deletion of object marker “ra”, deletion of copular verbs, agreement of subject and predicate in predicative sentences, substitution of “ra” with preposition and agreement of modifier and noun.