Modern Persian 1

Students start with the Persian writing system which is to a great extent different from Latin based Alphabetical system. There are 29 phonemes (23 consonants and 6 vowels) in Persian which is written from right to left and there are many examples of mismatch between phonemes and graphemes. Then the students learn and use simple declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences. In the course of learning sentence types, the have increase their mental lexicon and internalize 1000 to 1500 basic words. The basic words and structures help the students to be able to communicate for their basic needs in a real world coversation. They develop their language skills to the extent that are capable of reading elementary books, news topics and simplified versions of rich Iranian literature. And finally the students can communitate with one another by the medium of Persian and use Persian media including Iranian tvs and websites.
Grammatical issues like formation of conditional sentences using adjectives and adverbs and construction of relative clauses are included in the task of teaching based on communicative approach of language teaching.

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Mahootian, Sharzad (1997) Persian. London ; New York : Routledge COBISS.SI-ID - 3804258