Study of Phonological Fossilization in Persian Learners Who Are German Speakers: Errors Analysis and Ways to Avoid Them

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master Candidate in Linguistics- Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages,Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Faculty member of the Linguistics department in the University of Tehran

10.30479/jtpsol.2024.19879.1660

Abstract

In the present study, the phonological features of the German language are compared with those of the Persian language based on Spencer's theory of active articulators. By analyzing 171 samples of exam papers from German-speaking Persian learners, collected through document study methods, common phonetic errors made by German speakers during the process of learning Persian are examined using descriptive statistical analysis. During the examination of the phonemes and allophones of the German language, we encounter difficult sounds in Persian for German speakers that can be challenging for this group of Persian learners to produce. Consequently, the findings of this research include classified common phonetic errors of this group of Persian learners and, accordingly, offer strategies to avoid these errors and prevent to accure phonetics fossilization during their process of learning Persian. Fossilization in second language acquisition was first introduced by Selinker in the article "Interlanguage". This phenomenon occurs when individuals, in the process of learning a second language, incorporate features from various domains of their mother language, including morphology, syntax, phonetics, semantics, and other domains, into their knowledge of the second language. The solutions in this research are presented based on the errors in the data and their classification is also set based on the classification of errors.

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  • Receive Date: 28 January 2024
  • Revise Date: 10 June 2024
  • Accept Date: 14 September 2024

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