Mohamad Javad Rezai
Assistant Professor, Yazd University, Iran
[ 1 ] - Iranian EFL Learners' Processing of English Derived Words
An interesting area of psycholinguistic inquiry is to discover the way morphological structures are stored in the human mind and how they are retrieved during comprehension or production of language. The current study probed into what goes on in the mind of EFL learners when processing derivational morphology and how English and Persian derivational suffixes are processed. 60 Iranian EFL learne...
[ 2 ] - The or That: Definite and Demonstrative Descriptions in Second Language Acquisition
Since Heubner's (1985) pioneering study, there have been many studies on (mis) use/ non-use of articles by L2 learners from article-less and article languages. The present study investigated how Persian L2 learners of English produce and interpret English definite descriptions and demonstrative descriptions. It was assumed that definite and demonstrative descriptions share the same central sema...
[ 3 ] - Online Processing of English Wh-Dependencies by Iranian EFL Learners
To be able to reach the level of ultimate attainment in the second language, learners need to acquire not only the grammar of the L2 but also the language processing mechanisms involved in the comprehension of sentences in real time. Contrary to its importance, very little is known yet about online L2 processing. This study examines whether advanced Iranian learners of English reactivate disloc...
[ 4 ] - Acquisition of English Unergative and Unaccusative Structures by Persian EFL Learners
The acquisition of argument structures has been studied by a variety of second language acquisition scholars within the past two decades (Atay, 2010; Can, 2009; Chay, 2006, & Kras, 2007, among others). In the present study, ‘Predicate’ as the most substantial element of a sentence is investigated. There are three English verb-types which seem to be more problematic for Persian EFL learners: (a)...
[ 5 ] - 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...
[ 6 ] - فراگیری ساختارهای برآیندی توسط فراگیران انگلیسی فارسی زبان: تعامل نحو- معنا
چکیده ساختارهای برآیندی دربردارنده تنوع ساختاری گوناگونی در سطح تعامل نحو و معنا بوده و دارای ناهمگونیهای بین زبانی است. مطالعه کنونی به بررسی فراگیری انواع مختلف ساختارهای برآیندی توسط فراگیران انگلیسی فارسی زبان می پردازد. به دلیل نبود ساختهای سببی و غیر سببی برآیندی در زبان فارسی ، فراگیران می توانند در تولید و درک انواع مختلف این ساختار با چالش هایی مواجه شوند. این پژوهش به بررسی موارد ذیل ...
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