Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Mohammad Bagher Mirzaei Hesarian

Assistant Professor of Persian Language Education, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran

Abstract

One of the basic and necessary steps in teaching Persian language to non-Persian speakers (AZFA) is to collect and record raw linguistic data and prepare the corpus of non-Iranian Persian learners and describe the data using linguistic theories. The present study was done with the aim of taking a small step towards creating the production corpus of non-Iranian Persian learners and also getting to know more about the grammatical features of Farsi learners' writing. The main question is about the characteristics of the grammatical structure of Chinese Persian learners' writing at the intermediate level. The subsidiary question is about the effectiveness of the category grammar and the level in describing the grammatical structure of the intermediate language of Persian learners. This research employed a descriptive-analytical, and it was carried out by using linguistic corpus taken from the final writing test of 36 Chinese Persian learners of the Persian Language Education Center of Imam Khomeini International University based on the linguistic theory of category and measure. The findings showed that the sentence structure in the writings of intermediate level Chinese Farsi learners is mostly of the nuclear type, ordered and definite, but dependent and inverted clauses are also seen in the writings. Another finding is that, on average, the current group of each sentence has characteristics such as personal, definite and positive, and the current group of impersonal and unknown direction is almost invisible. The distinguishing characteristic of the nominal group is its non-dependent and single-dependent nature; but the adverbial group is almost equally marked and unmarked. The research has also confirmed the effectiveness of category and measure order in describing Chinese Persian learners' writing accurately.

Keywords

• grammar
• category and level
• writing
• Chinese Persian learner
• intermediate level