Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• seyed esma'il faraji

Lecturer at the Farsi Language Education Center of Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiya Community, Qom, Iran

Abstract

Prepositions can be considered one of the most widely used topics in Persian language. The purpose of this paper is to examine how to teach prepositions to non-Persian learners which sometimes causes problems in conveying meaning. This study employed a descriptive-analytical method and which is based on library research and document mining, attempts to answer the question of how methods and techniques used in teaching prepositions in Persian language classes should be. The results of this study show that avoiding traditional methods of teaching prepositions (such as memorizing the meanings of letters) and emphasizing on the use of new methods (visual techniques, focusing on focal and objective meanings, using tools and physical equipment, enhancing group exercises in class, selecting short stories to identify prepositions) are all useful and practical solutions in teaching the proposed domain.

Keywords

• Teaching Persian language
• prepositions
• time and place
• objective and visual schemas