Houshang Besati; Shahla Raghibdoost
Abstract
English passive has always been regarded as a challenge by Farsi-speaking EFL learners. Despite the presence of many linguistic and pedagogical approaches in studying and teaching English ...
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English passive has always been regarded as a challenge by Farsi-speaking EFL learners. Despite the presence of many linguistic and pedagogical approaches in studying and teaching English passive, there still appears to be a pedagogical gap facing Farsi-speaking EFL learners dealing with this construction. Taking up the cognitive-construction grammar perspective, the present article aims to investigate some aspects of the Farsi learners' errors emerged in forming English be-passive. In the present article, while investigating the linguistic behavior of Farsi-speaking EFL learners in forming English be-passive through designing and implementing a writing experiment on a group of 30 subjects of intermediate proficiency level, we found that subjects show a variety of performance errors which can be analyzed in terms of cognitive-construction grammar approach, and consequently, several suggestions can be put forth for teaching English be-passive to Farsi-speaking EFL learners.
