In this article, we have introduced the first parallel corpus of Persian with more than 10 other European languages. This article describes primary steps toward preparing a Basic Language Resources Kit (BLARK) for Persian. Up to now, we have proposed morphosyntactic specification of Persian based on EAGLE/MULTEXT guidelines and specific resources of MULTEXT-East. The article introduces Persian ...

this paper evaluates pedagogical grammar in the coursebooks of teaching persian non-iranian language learners. the study is based on communicative approach and pedagogical grammar. to evaluate the contents of those books, several checklists and grading scales were investigated and finally, an integrated checklist consisted of 20 questions was provided to be used in this study. in providing this...

one of the main objectives of teaching persian to non-native language learners is helping them to communicate with persian speakers in a variety of personal and professional situations in their daily life. to investigate the issues of verbal communication, we are obliged to pay attention to the different language functions. to do this, the present research aims to study the amount of attention ...

the development of the information and communication technology is considered as an effective step that has considerably changed in the educational goals, plans, and teaching procedures and improved educational effectiveness.  introducing ‘the software for assessing and teaching core vocabularies to non-persian speakers’, the present study aims to accentuate the role of technology in the educat...

teaching and learning a second language, especially in postgraduate courses requires teachers to use appropriate teaching approaches and strategies since they can facilitate language learning considerably. the present research aims to study the relationship between instructional scaffolding and language learning among a selected group of persian learners in persian language centre in qazvin, ir...

This paper is an attempt to exclusively focus on investigating the pivot language technique in which a bridging language is utilized to increase the quality of the Persian–Spanish low-resource Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). In this case, English is used as the bridging language, and the Persian–English SMT is combined with the English–Spanish one, where the relatively large corpora of e...

Persian is an Indo-European language written using Arabic script, and is an official language of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. Transliteration of Persian to English—that is, the character-bycharacter mapping of a Persian word that is not readily available in a bilingual dictionary—is an unstudied problem. In this paper we make three novel contributions. First, we present performance compar...