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Arefi, Marzieh; Alizadeh, Sona – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2008
In Urmia city, many children learn and speak their first language (either Azari or Kurdish) at home and study all of their courses in Farsi throughout their education. This bilingual quality of education needs to be researched to attain high quality educational practices. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of bilingualism on…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Piagetian Theory
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Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband – English Language Teaching, 2009
The purpose of this study was two-fold: it primarily intended to incorporate some insights into the newly-explored field of L3A: secondly, it aimed to highlight the significance of translation as a valid language activity in exploring the native language influence on non-native language acquisition process. To this end, it investigated the…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Syntax
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Rahbari, Noriyeh; Senechal, Monique; Arab-Moghaddam, Narges – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2007
The main objective of the present study was to examine the contribution of phonological and orthographic skills to Persian reading and spelling. The Persian language is of interest because it has very consistent grapheme-to-phoneme correspondences, but somewhat inconsistent phoneme-to-grapheme correspondences. Reading, spelling, phonological, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Grade 2, Monolingualism
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Keshavarz, Mohammad Hossein; Astaneh, Hamideh – International Journal of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism, 2004
This study aimed at comparing the performance of two bilingual groups of EFL students with that of a monolingual group on a controlled productive ability vocabulary test. Altogether 30 Turkish-Persian bilinguals, 30 Armenian-Persian bilinguals, and 30 Persian monolinguals participated in the study. The subjects in all three groups were homogeneous…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Vocabulary Development, Native Speakers, Monolingualism
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Modirkhamene, Sima – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study examines the possible effects of bilinguality on third language learning among English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners with a focus on reading comprehension proficiency achievement. This study is a longitudinal survey of EFL learners in Urmia University in Azerbaijan, Iran, during 2002-2004. It compared 56 Turkish-Persian…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Achievement, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
McFerren, Margaret – 1984
A survey of the status of language usage in Iran begins with an overview of the usage pattern of Persian, the official language spoken by just over half the population, and the competing languages of six ethnic and linguistic minorities: Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Arabic, Gilaki, Luri-Bakhtiari, and Mazandarani. The development of language policy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Arabic, Armed Forces, Azerbaijani
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