Ali Akbar Jabbari
Yazd University
[ 1 ] - The Effect of L1 Persian on the Acquisition of English L2 Orthographic System on the Shared Grounds
This paper elaborates on Persian and English orthographic shared aspects to study the effects of L1 Persian on learning English as a foreign language. While there are some examples of letter and sound mismatches in the orthographic system of both languages, those of English are more complex than Persian. In order to see the effect of the mismatch between orthography and transcription, 40 Persia...
[ 2 ] - Complementiser Phrase: The Case of English Wh-Embedded Clauses
English main-clause wh-questions form complementiser phrases with wh-words preposed to spec-C position. This is because English wh-words, as verb-complements originally, are strong enough to trigger wh-movement and auxiliary inversion. Persian EFL learners encounter an over-differentiation problem regarding the acquisition of auxiliary inversion rule in English standard questions. Once they hav...
[ 3 ] - The Adaptation of English Initial Clusters by Persian Learners
This study presents an overview of the different strategies that Persian learners of English employ to deal with initial clusters. While vowel epenthesis appears to be the most widespread repair strategy to conform such clusters to Persian phonotactics, the location of the epenthetic vowel varies. In this paper, we investigate two approaches that seek to explain the epenthetic site. The first o...
[ 4 ] - The Acquisition of Definiteness Feature by Persian L2 Learners of English
The definiteness feature in English is both LF and PF interpretable while Persian is a language in which this feature is LF-interpretable but PF-uninterpretable. Hence, there is no overt article or morphological inflection in Persian denoting a definite context. Furthermore, Persian partially encodes specificity not definiteness. In definiteness both the speaker and hearer are involved while in...
[ 5 ] - فراگیری توصیف کنندگان اسم در زبان عربی (زبان سوم) توسط فارسی زبانان (زبان اول) فراگیر زبان انگلیسی ( زبان دوم)
پژوهش حاضر برای بررسی یادگیری توصیف کنندگان اسم در زبان آموزان عربی بعنوان زبان سوم صورت گرفت؛ بدین منظور 32 زبان آموز سطح متوسط انگلیسی بعنوان زبان دوم که زبان اولشان فارسی بود انتخاب شدند و از آزمون شامل آزمون قضاوت دستوری و آزمون ترجمه جهت بررسی جایگاه و تطابق توصیف کنندگان اسم در زبان عربی استفاده شدند. پس از تحلیل داده ها، نتایج بدست آمده به وسیله نرم افزار آماری، نشان داده شد که ساختار مو...
[ 6 ] - The Impact of the Asynchronous Online Discussion Forum on the Iranian EFL Students’ Writing Ability and Attitudes
This paper focuses on the impact of an asynchronous online discussion forum on the development of students’ ability in and attitudes toward writing in English. To do this, 60 undergraduate students majoring in English were assigned to two experimental and control groups while receiving different types of feedback. Students in the experimental group were required to take part in an asynchronous ...
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