The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian offers a detailed overview of the field of Persian second language acquisition and pedagogy. The Handbook discusses its development and captures critical accounts of cutting edge research within the major subfields of Persian second language acquisition and pedagogy, as well as current debates and problems, and goes on to suggest productive lines of future research.
The book is divided into the following four parts: I) Theory-driven research on second language acquisition of Persian, II) Language skills in second language acquisition of Persian, III) Classroom research in second language acquisition and pedagogy of Persian, and IV) Social aspects of second language acquisition and pedagogy of Persian.
The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian is an essential reference for scholars and students of Persian SLA and pedagogy as well as those researching in related areas.
Table of Contents:
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
The Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
POUNEH SHABANI-JADIDI
PART I: Theory-Driven Research on Second Language Acquisition of Persian
Chapter 2 The Acquisition of Segmental and Suprasegmental Features in Second Language Persian: A Focus on Prosodic Parameters of Politeness
REZA FALAHATI
Chapter 3 Heritage versus Second Language Phonology
YASAMAN RAFAT
Chapter 4 Linguistics Competence of Persian Heritage versus Second Language Speakers
KARINE MEGERDOOMIAN
Chapter 5 Negative Forms of Persian Progressive Tenses: Evidence from Monolingual, Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers of Persian
AZITA TALEGHANI
Chapter 6 Second Language Morphology: Case of Idiomatic Expressions
POUNEH SHABANI-JADIDI
Chapter 7 Some Unique Semantic Properties of Persian
MASOUD JASBI
Chapter 8 Second Language Acquisition of the Semantics of Focus-Sensitive Operators in Persian
MARZIEH MORTAZAVINIA
PART II: Language Skills in Second Language Acquisition of Persian
Chapter 9 Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: Persian Resources and Teaching and Learning Strategies
MICHAEL CRAIG HILLMANN
Chapter 10 Second Language Grammar: Challenges in Grammar for English-Speaking Learners
BEHROOZ MAHMOODI-BAKHTIARI
Chapter 11 Second Language Listening in Persian
YASS ALIZADEH
Chapter 12 Second Language Speaking in Persian
MUSA NUSHI
Chapter 13 Second Language Reading in Persian
NAHAL AKBARI AND ALI REZA ABASI
Chapter 14 Second Language Writing in Persian
ALI REZA ABASI
Part III: Classroom Research in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian
Chapter 15 Teaching Persian for Proficiency in American Colleges and Universities
MEHDI MARASHI
Chapter 16 Communicative, Task-Based, and Content-Based Approaches to Persian Language Teaching: Second Language, Mixed and Heritage Classes at the University Level
LATIFEH HAGIGI AND MICHELLE QUAY
Chapter 17 The Persian Language Educator’s Role in Developing Effective Blended Language Learning: From Principles to Practice
DARIA MIZZA AND MOHAMAD ESMAILI-SARDARI
Chapter 18 Using Technology to Develop Instructional Materials for Persian
Based on Task-Based Language Teaching
PEYMAN NOJOUMIAN
Chapter 19 Teaching Persian through Short Stories with Parallel Elaboration
ANOUSHA SHAHSAVARI
Chapter 20 Teaching Persian Literature in Persian: A Content-Based Approach
ASGHAR SEYED GOHRAB
Chapter 21 Development of a Standard Persian Language Proficiency Test
for Speakers of Other Languages
AMIR REZA VAKILIFARD
Chapter 22 Second Language Assessment in Persian
NAHAL AKBARI
Part IV: Social Aspects of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian
Chapter 23 Persian as a National Language, Minority Languages and Multilingual Education in Iran
NEGAR DAVARI ARDAKANI
Chapter 24 Teaching Persian Varieties and Dialects: Persian Reference Framework
MAHINNAZ MIRDEHGHAN AND SAEED REZA YOUSEFI
Chapter 25 The Acquisition of Persian Pragmatic Competence: A Case Study about the Comprehension of Conversational Implicature and Presupposition in the Learners of Persian as a Second/Foreign Language
ZAHRA HAMEDI SHIRVAN
Chapter 26 Persian as an Interlanguage
MAHBOD GHAFFARI
Chapter 27 Interlanguage and Beyond: Persian-English Codeswitching
SHAHRZAD MAHOOTIAN AND LEWIS GEBHARDT
Chapter 28 Language Learning Strategies and Beliefs about Language Learning: A Study of University Students of Persian in the United States
AZITA MOKHTARI
Chapter 29 Utilization of Neologisms in Teaching and Assessment of Advanced Persian:
A Sociolinguistic Approach
RAMIN SARRAF
About the Author :
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Senior Faculty Lecturer in Persian Language and Linguistics and Head of the Persian Language Program at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Ottawa (2012) and a PhD in applied linguistics from Tehran Azad University (2004). She has taught Persian language and linguistics as well as Persian literature and translation at McGill University, the University of Oxford, the University of Chicago, and Tehran Azad University since 1997. She served as President of the American Association of Teachers of Persian in 2018–2020.
