ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|5 pages

Introduction

part I|173 pages

Theory-driven research on second language acquisition of Persian

chapter 2|27 pages

The acquisition of segmental and suprasegmental features in second language Persian

A focus on prosodic parameters of politeness

chapter 5|22 pages

Negative forms of Persian progressive tenses

Evidence from monolingual, second language learners and heritage speakers of Persian

chapter 6|12 pages

Second language morphology

Case of idiomatic expressions

part II|128 pages

Language skills in second language acquisition of Persian

chapter 9|37 pages

Second language vocabulary acquisition

Persian resources and teaching and learning strategies

chapter 10|15 pages

Second language grammar

Challenges in grammar for English-speaking learners

chapter 12|20 pages

Second language1 speaking in Persian

chapter 14|16 pages

Second language writing in Persian

part III|160 pages

Classroom research in second language acquisition and pedagogy of Persian

chapter 16|19 pages

Communicative, task-based, and content-based approaches to Persian language teaching

Second language, mixed, and heritage classes at the university level

chapter 18|18 pages

Using technology to develop instructional materials for Persian

Based on task-based language teaching

chapter 20|21 pages

Teaching Persian literature in Persian

A content-based approach

part IV|182 pages

Social aspects of second language acquisition and pedagogy of Persian

chapter 24|30 pages

Teaching Persian varieties and dialects

A Persian reference framework

chapter 25|22 pages

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 (LOP)1

chapter 26|21 pages

Persian as an interlanguage

chapter 27|24 pages

Interlanguage and beyond

Persian-English codeswitching

chapter 28|40 pages

Language learning strategies and beliefs about language learning

A study of university students of Persian in the United States

chapter 29|20 pages

Utilization of neologisms in teaching and assessment of advanced Persian

A sociolinguistic approach