Mahinnaz Mirdehghan Farashah

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Associate) at Shahid Beheshti University

The present study aims to develop Persian teachers’ perception of content selection procedure within Persian teaching book series of “Persian Prime” (2024) via an analytic study based on the series’ action-oriented approach and the grammar, vocabulary and function selection within its A1 and A2 levels, from the Persian Reference Framework (PRF). Th...

Placement test is a test with the purpose of providing information that determines the appropriate level of the learners in an educational course according to their abilities. Due to the rapid development of technology and its application in the field of education, testing has changed from pen and paper-based test to computer-based test. The purpos...

Accurate selection of educational resources is one of the most influential factors in the success of any language course. Considering the frequency of educational resources in the field of Teaching Persian Language to Non-Persian Speakers (TPLNPS) and the need to be able to choose the right resources according to the needs of each center and educat...

Teacher’s Book: Teacher's books include 9 main sections: “Teaching Method”, “Essentials of Knowledge for Teachers Not Familiar with the Chinese Language”, “Tips for Self-Study”, “Textbook Answers”, “Workbook Answers”, “Written Listening Data Text”, “Verb Conjugation Table (Present Continuous and Simple Past)”, “Written and Spoken Contrast Table” an...

Work Book: Workbooks consists of 8 lessons. Each lesson consists of 14 exercises, which include practices related to “Vocabulary”, “Grammar”, “Sentence Making”, “Spoken Persian to Writing and vice versa” as well as “Conversation”.

Its lesson plan is designed for each level (including its 2 sub-levels) in 72 sessions (60 teaching sessions and 12 evaluation sessions (which can be reduced to 2 mid-term and end-semester evaluation sessions at the discretion of the institution)), that is, for 144 hours. Of course, it should be noted that this schedule is a suggestion and the inst...

In the compilation of the Teacher’s Book in this series, the teachers’ needs is analyzed and considered as follows: It is compiled with all the details and based on the most up-to-date teaching methods for each level, which is developed with a step-by-step guide for teachers on how to teach each and every chapter, lesson, activity, audio file and p...

In this series, grammar, vocabulary, language skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking) and functions are presented based on a model taken from the Persian language teaching Reference Framework (PRF; Mirdehghan Farashah et al., 2016; Mirdehghan Farashah, 2020). Each level series include around 350-500 words with each lesson introducing 6 to 10...

The 12-volume series of Persian PRIME is an attractive and consolidated collection for teaching the four main skills of Persian language to adult non-Persian speakers. This series, as a part of a comprehensive program in the field of TPSOL, is developed in 6 main levels of A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 levels. PRIME book series has been prepared with t...

he audio files can be easily accessed by scanning the QR code embedded within the book and are also available at the collection’s website, https://persianprime.org. The method of coding audio data of the series is such that from left to right the codes represent the number of related Level, Unit, Lesson and Exercise successively. For example, the c...

The importance of learning Persian for non-Persian speakers has a significant impact on the compilation of educational materials based on the needs of Persian learners. Since language teaching is mainly associated with the introduction of cultural issues into the knowledge of the language learner, the contribution of educational books to the transm...

In the present research word order has been used to determine the type of Eastern Armenian Language in comparison to the groups of "Eurasian" and "world" languages based on Dryer's (1992) "Branching Direction Theory". Dryer (1992), has introduced 23 correlation pairs as verb-patterned and object-patterned, to determine the word order in languages....

In compiling the Textbook manuscripts, Written Persian has been used. Though keeping in mind the necessity of familiarity of learners with the difference of Persian written and spoken forms, the audio data text recordings of listening activities of Dialogue and Interaction sections within the Textbooks, are provided in both written and spoken forms...

In the compilation of the Teacher’s Book in this series, the teachers’ needs is analyzed and considered as follows: It is compiled with all the details and based on the most up-to-date teaching methods for each level, which is developed with a step-by-step guide for teachers on how to teach each and every chapter, lesson, activity, audio file and p...

Parfa China is the first bilingual (Persian-Mandarin) series for Teaching Persian to Adult Chinese Speakers based on the Persian Reference Framework (PRF) and International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education.

In general, the Teacher’s book is provided in 8 chapters, as follows: Chapter 1: Introduction of the Series Chapter 2: Teaching each of the Textbook and Workbook’s Units, Lessons and Exercises with a systematic guide and practical tips for all its parts Chapter 3: Quizzes: Written and Oral Chapter 4: Tests: Written and Oral Chapter 5: Teaching the...

In this collection, while focusing on communication skills, the communicative approach and language learning outputs have been used. In doing so, the whole teaching process and the language skills and tasks within the lessons has been carried out in order to perform a speaking communicative activity by the learner. The lesson’s speaking goal is pre...

In the compilation of the Teacher’s Book in this series, the teachers’ needs is analyzed and considered as follows: It is compiled with all the details and based on the most up-to-date teaching methods for each level, which is developed with a step-by-step guide for teachers on how to teach each and every chapter, lesson, activity, audio file and p...

In compiling the Textbook manuscripts, Written Persian has been used. Though keeping in mind the necessity of familiarity of learners with the difference of Persian written and spoken forms, the audio data text recordings of listening activities of Dialogue and Interaction sections within the Textbooks, are provided in both written and spoken forms...

The 12-volume series of Persian PRIME is an attractive and consolidated collection for teaching the four main skills of Persian language to adult non-Persian speakers. This series, as a part of a comprehensive program in the field of TPSOL, is developed in 6 main levels of A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 and C2 levels. PRIME book series has been prepared with t...

Article type: Research article The present research aims at the identification and typology of clitics in Vafsi based on Aikhenvald's (2003) parameters. This study is analytical and library-based as the Vafsi examples in this study are mostly from the Vafsi corpus gathered by Stilo (2004b) in the form of 24 Vafsi folk tales and also from his other...

پژوهش حاضر همراه با تحلیل استعاره‌های مفهومی و کلیدهای مفهومی واژة «هدایت» در دوازده جزء آخر قرآن‌کریم به تبیین حوزه‌های مفهومی آن بر اساس رویکرد تحلیل‌انتقادی چارتریس‌بلک (1995) می‌پردازد. کلیدهای مفهومی فوق و مفهوم‌سازی آنان در قالب عوامل واژگانی خاص همراه با نمونه‌های قرآنی نشان داده شده و با حوزه‌های مفهومی مشخص تبیین گردیده است. روش تحقیق توصی...

Literature, by breaking common rules in the form of rhetorical techniques, brings an artistic form for language and it deviates from the standard form. This can make it difficult for non-Persian speakers.The purpose of this study is to show "the aesthetic functions of rhetorical techniques in Persian language teaching" and "the introduction of appr...

Regarding the necessity of selecting efficient language learning strategies and methods for teaching English to Persian-speakers, the Langacker's cognitive grammar theory has been used as a creative method in teaching. The present study aims to evaluate the creative usage of cognitive grammar in education to simplify the process, provide better lea...

The study of Lexical Aspect in Persian Complex Predicates has been a controversial topic in recent years. As far as telicity is concerned, there are two contrasting approaches in this field: one in which the “Preverbal elements”, including nouns, adjectives, and prepositional phrases, are considered to be determinant of telicity; and the other, in...

ضرب‌المثل‌ها در انعکاس فرهنگ و هویت فردی و اجتماعی یکی از مقوله‌های بااهمیت در مطالعات زبانی محسوب می‌شود. مردم هر جامعه و قومی از روش‌های گوناگون استفاده می‌کنند و منظور خود را در قالب ظرافت‌های فرهنگی و ادبی به گوش دیگران می‌رسانند. نظر به اهمیت طرح‌واره‌های تصوری در معنا‌شناسی شناختی، به‌عنوان یکی از مهم‌ترین سازوکارهای زبانی، و از آنجا که مطالع...

Factors such as discourse context, social characteristics of the speaker, language attitudes, and processability of learners on their levels influence a speaker’s use of a particular form. Some researches show that different tasks elicited different types of forms learners. In this study, we try to investigate the type’s influence of task on “Ra” (...

The present research aims to investigate the effect of stress on Vafsi oblique clitic PAMs and accordingly determine their placement based on LFG analysis by using the prosody-syntax interface. Vafsi is one of the Iranian languages belonging to the Tati group of Iranian North-Western languages which is spoken only in four villages of Vafs, Chehreg...

The necessity for a reference framework (RF) for teaching Persian to speakers of other languages (TPSOL) is an essential issue in different fields of teaching Persian, including (1) materials development, (2) course design, (3) proficiency tests, and (4) certificating. Defining grammatical, lexical and functional contents for each educational level...

One of the essentials of training specialists in the field of “Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages” (TPSOL) is to familiarize teachers with key issues in it. The author's point of view in organizing this book is that successful language learning is dependent on the Persian language teacher's familiarity with basic teaching principles an...

The purpose of this research is to introduce and present a critical review of the chapter entitled "The Caspian region and south Azerbaijan: Caspian and Tatic", by Donald L. Stilo. Formally, his research is encased into a book as a full chapter, including 10 sections. In theory and methodology, this research is based on areal linguistics and areal...

Role and Reference Grammar (RRG) is a functional-structural theory in which syntactic structures are combined with semantic structures but the core part is the semantic structure. This paper aimed to analyze and describe different types of static structures in Arabic within the RRG and by using examples from the Holy Qur’an. Therefore, the data of...

Anaphora entities, particularly pronouns, in the Holy Quran are organized in a very subtle and unique manner. Hence anaphora resolution i.e. the identifying of an anaphora in the Quran's text requires particular principals and rules. Undoubtedly, failing in identifying the correct antecedent of these entities leads to certain ambiguities and vaguen...

In this research, we aimed to find out the structural differences between the two linguistic languages, namely standard language and literary language. First, based on the contrastive analysis of the grammar books of the literary works with the standard grammar books, the differences between these two languages were extracted and then, based on the...

The present chapter provides a general view of the “core” and “peripheral” varieties of Persian, their respective educational bodies, together with the necessity for a “common framework” for Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages (TPSOL), with the aim of helping to shape a roadmap for developing teaching programs in different parts of the...

The purpose of this research is to answer this question: what are the similar and different typological features of Azerbaijani Turkish, Korean, Hungarian and Persian languages? In our analysis, we have used Chomsky`s Generative-Transformational Grammar and Government and Binding theory. We have studied the movement of the subject and object nomina...

Bilingual Aphasia, as one of the challenging issues in psycholinguistics, has not been received the attention it deserves in Iran. Following the call for more reflection on bilingual aphasia in different languages, the present study seeks to investigate the manifestations of aphasia in the spontaneous speech of a bilingual Kurdish-Persian individua...

The purpose of the present study is a typological analysis on word-order and agreement in Evazi dialect, one of the dialects in the south of Fars province. This dialect has shown interesting characteristics in agreement system and word-order which is different from standard Farsi but similar to some other dialects in Fars such as Larestani, Khonji,...

The present research is a corpus-based one that aims to analyze conceptualization of ‘space’ in Persian within the framework of Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM). NSM researchers have identified eight semantic primes for the concept of ‘space’ (including WHERE~PLACE, HERE, ABOVE, BELOW, FAR, NEAR, SIDE, INSIDE) that is believed to be lexicalized...

The present article is an attempt to study and classify object metaphors in 26th (from the beginning of Sura Ahghaf) to 30th parts of the Quran with the aim of determining most important target domains of object metaphors and their cognitive justification and also their frequencies in above-mentioned parts of Quran. Metaphorical concepts have been...

It is quite evident that children are capable to understand meanings which they are unable to produce correctly. Recent studies have also provided evidence that children occasionally produce correct forms that they do not understand yet. The present study seeks to focus on the question of “ how is it possible for children to produce correct forms t...

Due to the necessity of specialized materials and textbooks for Teaching Persian for Specific Purposes, developing appropriate educational contents for teaching Persian is an essential matter. The matter has been considered here for teaching Persian to Chinese speakers on the basis of a standard framework and considering the needs of Chinese learne...

This study is aimed to design tasks for teaching official Persian language to speakers of the Lārī language, a language spoken in the southernmost of Iran and other states of the Persian Gulf with around a million speakers. The study, in this respect, is founded on the basis of the importance of tasks in language teaching. In order to teach Persian...

Kalileh and Dimna is one of the most brilliant literary works of all time periods after its creation. It is a story that has written in a beautiful and impressive prose and includes stories that are expressed in the language of animals andat the heart of the stories, other stories are expressed that make sit even more beautiful and impressive. Kali...

Typology of language is 250year old. It is a systematic study of variations among languages and the presupposition of this definition is to consider some general principles governing language diversities (Comrie, 2001: quoted by Dabir-moghaddam). Word order is one of the integrated fields in determining differences and similarities in typology. Haw...

Cognitive Linguistics is one the emerging interdisciplinary sciences that look at Structural principles of language from the perspective of human cognition. Awareness of these patterns could Catalyze the process of Interdisciplinary Dialogue. There are three patterns here: Encyclopedic Approach, Image Schemas, and Metaphor. Metaphor in this case is...

This paper is aimed to study the mental processes of children and teenagers in understanding of Persian image schemas and then to compare it with Jean Piaget Theory(1973). In this research it is considerd two stages of cognitive development: concrete operational stage and formal operational stage. The research method in this paper is library method...

The definition and typological description of the category of voice can be provided in two ways: i) at the level of semantic arguments (or semantic roles), ii) at the level of grammatical relations (or syntactic functions). The most important theoretical concept that is determined in terms of these two levels of representations and enables one to c...

The dative case in Vafsi appears in three structures: (a) the case of the experiencer in sensory verbs, (b) the case of the indirect object (IO), and (c) the case of the object of the preposition /da/ (to), or the preposition /az/ (to), or the enclitic /-o/ (to), or the object of the postposition /rā/ (for). In Vafsi, as in many other Indo-European...

The present research is aimed to examine the role of anxiety in using learning strategies of Persian as a second languagein regard to the mediating role of cognitive intelligence.The study corpus includes 80 non-Iranian Persian learners of Imam Khomeini International University who have participated by filled out the 3 research questionnaires inclu...

The present research is aimed to evaluate the working memory (WM) in Persian words (as a L2) in comparison to it in Chinese words (as L1) in Chinese Persian learners. Thirty learners at Dehkhoda institute were chosen as the study sample. Sampling has been relied on the available subjects who took part in the visual n-back task which was specificall...

The purpose of this research is to analyze Differential Adpositional Case Marking (DACM) in Vafsi within OT framework by using the generalization of Aissen?s (2003) Differential Object Marking (DOM) model. While Bossong (1985) has traced DOM in more than 300 languages, DACM has not been investigated typologically, yet. DACM, as a branch of Differen...

The present research is aimed to present a description of the MONOPHTONGS in the dialect of Laki Nurabadi in comparison to that of Standard written Persian language. Accordingly, following a brief dialectal introduction including the typological classification of the dialect within the Iranian language family, vocalic structural analyses of the two...

The present research aims to analyze the orthographic errors of German-speaking learners of Persian at the elementary level. To do so, pieces of writing of 34 students were gathered via self-motivated method and examined based on the corpus of orthographic errors, using the frameworks proposed by Keshavarz (1994) and Ziahoseini (1999). 850 phonolog...

The aim of this article is to provide detailed descriptions of the ergative case marking in three South Asian Languages. The sample from which we will try to make some generalizations includes the Indic language Hindi/Urdu, the Eastern Iranian Pashto and the Western Iranian Balochi languages, which are considered as examples of morphological ergati...

Grammatical tense, as the time of action occurrence, locates a situation in time to indicate when the situation takes place, which in many languages is indicated in three basic categories of past, present and future. The present study is aimed to analyze the tense system in Lari language, a language of Larestan Township in the Southern part of Iran...

As many scholars believe, teaching Persian language, that as the second language in the Muslim world, is a window for knowing and understanding the culture and civilization of Iran, requires specialized curriculum development. This research is aimed to present the reading comprehension skill for upper-intermediate learners in the field of Islamic s...

Fourteen grammatical cases can be detected in Vafsi. These cases are marked by means of different types of strategies. These strategies are: 1. using morphemes in the form of suffixes, 2. using ppositions, 3. using clitics, 4. using word order, and 5. using suprasegmental features. Ergative, accusative, object of adposition, dative and genitive cas...

The present research aims to examine the effect of task-based syllabus and contrastive analysis of nominal and verbal phrases in Persian and Lari languages on enhancing Persian knowledge of Lari speakers. To do so, a sample of 60 subjects in second year of elementary school was selected through multistage and purposive sampling. Then, they were div...

The present study analyzes the education and culture in “Persian Language”, the book series authored by Ahmad Saffar Moghaddam. To do so, Tartu-Moscow’s approach to cultural semiotics was employed as theoretical framework in which, concepts such as semiosphere, text, center and periphery. In addition, the present study is an attempt to introduce a...

To improve the position of Persian as a scientific language, an organized program is required on the basis of the modern methodologies in teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages (TPSOL), which is more obvious in regard to the rapid development of technology where traditional class-based education is being evolved into the modern computer-ba...

This research is a comparative study of the typological parameters of contemporary spoken Persian language and Saravi, a main dialect of the Mazandarani language, using some Greenbergian universals as its theoretical framework in word order correlations. The study aims to determine the common parameters and the variations of specific syntactic cons...

The present research is a case study of gender differences of language usage in a pair of non-identical twins (a boy [Arsham] and a girl [Arshida]), performed on their using in Farsi Lexicon. The descriptive-analytic research is based on Mac-Arthur-Bates’s Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), according to which the twin’s lexicon has been d...

The present study aimed to provide a comprarative analysis of the performance of Persian monoligual and Azari-Persian bilingual adolescents in comprehension of Persian proverbs. The study has been made on the basis of the constraint satisfaction model, within which the effect of the variables of “linguistic context”, “familiarity” and “gender” is e...

The importance of researches within the syntactic scope of different languages and dialects in scientific frameworks has specifically gained interest within the Optimality Theoretic Framework (OTE), within which the variety differences can be defined by differential rankings of the same set of constraints, and the concept of “Unity in Variety” in d...

During the process of language learning some crucial cultural factors may be notified, seriously hindering the effective learning process, and commonly known as cultural barriers. Effective language learning among different cultures is especially challenging, due to the different ways of thinking, seeing, hearing, and interpreting the world provide...

This study aims to analyze the positions and syntactic functions of dependent and independent personal pronouns in the Kakavandi Laki dialect in the region of Harsin (Kermanshah/Iran), an endangered dialect of Persian. The paper provides a morpho-syntactic description and investigates the dialectal characteristic positions of the pronominals in reg...

The aim of this article is to provide detailed descriptions of the morpho- syntyavti variation of grammatical relations within the nominal and verbal paradigms in three south Asian Languages. The sample includes the Indic Hindi/Urdu, the Eastern Iranian Pashto and the Western Iranian Balochi Languages, which are selected in the ranged of new Indo-I...

The writing systems of Persian, Urdu, and Pashto draw from a common script (Arabic) with adaptations to represent sounds specific to each language. With the aim of presenting a comparative orthographic analysis of the three languages, graphemic representations of the consonants are systematically compared and contrasted, followed by a similar analy...

The present research accounts for the characteristic tense patterns of the verbal system in Laki Nurabadi dialect, in comparison to Farsi language. The study takes the following course of progress. It consists of an analysis of a set of related phenomena within the sample, including a brief introduction to the dialect position in Iranian language f...

This research is designed to produce detailed descriptions of the morphological ergativity in three South Asian languages. The chosen sample includes Hindi/Urdu, Pashto and Balochi, as morphologically enough to achieve the goals and generalizations of the research. The study presents the range of variation in case and agreement marking in these Sou...

While discourse analyses go back to the secondhalf of 1950s, related researches in the rhetoric field represent initiative interests' centuries before by Islamic rhetoricians.Among the topics "Iltifat" as the "grammatical person shift inone or a sequence of sentences" has been quite controversialwithin the area; which considers the discourse partic...