General Interferences Performed by Iranian Arab Speakers of Khuzestan Learning Persia as L2

Interference is one of the major problems affecting the process of second language learning. Iran, as the cradle of civilization, enjoys a various spectrum of cultures, languages and dialects. In south of Iran, especially in Khuzestan, there is an Arabic speaking population who speak Persian with a total shadow of their mother tongue extending itself on their second language( Persian) performance. Based on Bergtrom's Interference Theory (1982), this study has investigated by a descriptive analysis of the gathered data how the semantic, syntactic, phonetic and morphological patterns of Arabic crawl into Persian speaking process. The results have shown that the syntactic and phonetic factors are more interfering and affecting in comparison to the semantic and morphological ones.

کلیدواژه ها:

Second language learning ، Proactive interference ، Retroactive interference