University Tehran Language Research 1026-2288 12 1 2021 08 23 The Effect of Gender in The Use of the Modal Adjuncts in The Writings of Advanced Foreign Learners of Persian Language Based on Functional Grammar The Effect of Gender in The Use of the Modal Adjuncts in The Writings of Advanced Foreign Learners of Persian Language Based on Functional Grammar 81492 10.22059/jolr.2021.314508.666671 FA Abolfazl Mouchani Teaching Persian Language to non-Persian Learners, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran Journal Article 2020 11 29 This research investigated modal adjuncts usage in the writings of the foreign female and male learners of Persian language. This research has been done based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar approach, because, this theoretical framework provides a systemic method for text analysis. About investigating the impact of gender on the writings of Persian language speakers, valuable studies have been done so far, But any research has not investigated the impact of gender on the modal adjuncts usage in the writings of foreign learners of Persian language. In fact, this research has been done to investigate the impact of gender on different modal adjuncts usage in the writings of the foreign learners of Persian language based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar approach. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic method. in this research, the population of this study included Advanced Foreign learners of Persian language which studied at Persian Language Center of Ferdowsi University. This field study used random sampling for participant selection. data were collected through tests and writing assignments. The sample and the corpus of this research was the writing of 248 advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language of the center for teaching Persian language in Ferdowsi university of Mashhad. Sampling method is done in this order: first, the writing of 248 advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language was separated based on gender (124 men and 124 women); Then, the modal adjuncts in the texts was determined based on the segmentation of Halliday; after that, the distribution of all modal adjuncts, was determined and shown by charts and compared. The chi - square statistical test was used to study the significance of differences between men and women. The results indicated that the modality adjuncts were the most frequent modal adjuncts in the writings of advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language. This research investigated modal adjuncts usage in the writings of the foreign female and male learners of Persian language. This research has been done based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar approach, because, this theoretical framework provides a systemic method for text analysis. About investigating the impact of gender on the writings of Persian language speakers, valuable studies have been done so far, But any research has not investigated the impact of gender on the modal adjuncts usage in the writings of foreign learners of Persian language. In fact, this research has been done to investigate the impact of gender on different modal adjuncts usage in the writings of the foreign learners of Persian language based on Halliday's systemic functional grammar approach. The method of this research is descriptive-analytic method. in this research, the population of this study included Advanced Foreign learners of Persian language which studied at Persian Language Center of Ferdowsi University. This field study used random sampling for participant selection. data were collected through tests and writing assignments. The sample and the corpus of this research was the writing of 248 advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language of the center for teaching Persian language in Ferdowsi university of Mashhad. Sampling method is done in this order: first, the writing of 248 advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language was separated based on gender (124 men and 124 women); Then, the modal adjuncts in the texts was determined based on the segmentation of Halliday; after that, the distribution of all modal adjuncts, was determined and shown by charts and compared. The chi - square statistical test was used to study the significance of differences between men and women. The results indicated that the modality adjuncts were the most frequent modal adjuncts in the writings of advanced female and male foreign learners of Persian language.