The present study aims to investigated Iranian L2 speaker`s knowledge of the overt pronounconstraint (OPC) in English. It also aims to examine L2 learners understanding of UniversalGrammar (Chomsky 1981, 1986, 2000, 2001) and if it is common to all languages. Specifically,this study takes a new look at the L2 acquisition of knowledge of the overt pronoun constraint(Montalbetti 1984) by Persian ...

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background and purpose:     methods:     results     conclusion:     key words:     ational u niversity e ntrance e xamination c omprehensive m edical b asic s ciences e xamination , e nglish language , u niversity ranking , n   students’ grades the nuee language score was not the only factor affecting the student’s cmbse score; other factors such as the university’s english teachers, existence...

today in multilingual contexts, many parents prefer to rear their children in the dominant language rather than in their mother tongue. this phenomenon is widespread among native speakers of kalhuri dialect of the kurdish language in the multilingual context of iran, too. nevertheless, some studies have evidenced the privilege of bilinguals in learning an additional language though some others ...