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Mehrabi, Marzieh; Rahmatian, Rouhollah; Safa, Parivash; Armiun, Novid – International Education Studies, 2014
This paper analyzes the spoken corpus of thirty Iranian learners of French at four levels (A1, A2, B1 and B2). The data were collected in a pseudo-longitudinal manner in semi-directed interviews with half closed and open questions to analyze the learners' syntactic errors (omission, addition, substitution and displacement). The most frequent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Babai Shishavan, Homa; Sharifian, Farzad – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2013
The aim of this study was to explore pragmalinguistic strategies employed by a group of Iranian English language learners when making refusals to invitations, requests, offers and suggestions in their first (Persian) and second (English) languages. Data were collected from 86 participants through a Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The social…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning