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Persian Language In Foreign Language

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1.5. Research Objectives
The current research has a limited scope, as it confines itself to 20 male teachers, in some private institutes where the study took place and the data obtained through the conducted questionnaires and interviews with them. The research is set out to investigate their perceptions toward the use of Persian in English classrooms to find out whether the use of students’ L1, Persian in this case, plays a facilitating role in learning English. As has been mentioned earlier, the aim of this study is to explore the perceptions of English teachers toward using learners’ L1, Persian in this case, in English language classrooms.
All in all the main aim of this study is to investigate the perceptions of English teachers in institutes …show more content…

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1.7.1) L1 (First Language): A person’s mother tongue or the language acquired first. A first language (also native language, mother tongue, or L1) is the language or are the languages a person has learned from birth or within the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity (Persian in our case), (Richards and Schmidt, 2002).
1.7.2) TL (Target Language): (in language teaching) the language which a person is learning, in contrast to a first language or mother tongue (Richards and Schmidt, 2002).
1.7.3) Foreign Language: According to Richards and Schmidt (2002) foreign language is “…a language which is not the language of large numbers of people in a particular country or region, is not used as a medium of instruction in schools, and is not widely used as a medium of communication in government, media, etc.”(p. 206).
1.7.4) Code Switching: a change by a speaker (or writer) from one language or language verity to another one. Code switching can take place in a conversation when one speaker uses one language and the other speaker answers in a different language (Richards and Schmidt, …show more content…

In this first chapter, statement of the problem, significance of the study along with the purpose of the study are presented. Chapter Two deals with the relevant literature pinpointing different ideas and opinions on the use of mother tongue in English classes. Upon presenting related theoretical concepts and classifications, a number of studies are presented in a more detailed way. In chapter three the methodology of the study is presented. In chapter four, the results of the study are fully elaborated upon. Chapter five presents a discussion of the findings of the study. In the rest, it outlines the conclusions, pedagogical implications of findings, and suggestions for further

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