Type of Work: MA Thesis

Author: Nouzarian, Hamid.

Title: A Contrastive Study on Negation in Persian and English

         and  Teaching Negation to Native Speakers of English

         /bærresi-ye moqabele'i-ye pædide-ye næfy dær zæban-e

         farsi væ 'engelisi væ  

         čegunegi-ye 'amuzeš-e 'an be færagiran-e 'engelisizæban/.

Advisor: Dr. Seyyed Mohammad Ziahosseini.

University: Shahid Beheshti.

Faculty: Literature and Humanities.

Department: Persian Language and Literature.

Date: 2000.

Number of pages: 106.

Language: Persian.

Subjects: Negation, Contrastive analysis, Exercises.

Abstract: Aims to answer the question, “Are the differences in negation in Persian and English related in learning Persian for native speakers of English?” Consists of 5 chapters.  Chapter 1 presents the introduction and the research objectives. Chapter 2 presents the ideas for and against contrastive analysis.  Chapter 3 focuses on a contrastive analysis of negation in the syntactic structures of Persian and English.  Chapter 4 discusses the error analysis as found in the  test, and chapter 5 presents the results and suggestions for further studies.  Concludes that in general negation is more complicated in English than in Persian and seems that for this very reason the number of such errors for native speakers of English learning Persian, is fewer than native speakers of Persian learning English.  Moreover, not all errors can be predicted using contrastive analysis.  At the end, a variety of exercises are provided so as to help teachers help their students in learning Persian.