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Heritage Learners’ versus Second Language Learners’ Source of Errors in Advanced-Level Writing: Case of a Persian Media Course

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi*
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McGill University
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Abstract

This paper examines the acquisition particularities of advanced-level students. It also investigates the use of content-based—in this case media material—in teaching advanced-level students, as well as the impact of teaching such material on the students’ writing ability and overall proficiency. Finally, the subtle differences between heritage learners and second language learners are analyzed and discussed. Therefore, this research encompasses both a quantitative and a qualitative study of the issue at stake to ensure reliability of the findings. The results of the study suggest that there is no significant difference between the number of errors made by heritage learners and second language learners; however, the sources of these errors are often different. These sources of error and their possible reasons are discussed in this paper.

Keywords

Heritage LearnersSecond Language LearnersMedia PersianAdvanced Level PersianError SourceWritingNewspapers
Type
Articles
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Iranian Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 5 , September 2018 , pp. 747 - 778
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Copyright © Association For Iranian Studies, Inc 2018

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Footnotes

Figure 2 reproduced with permission form the copyright holder from What the Persian Media Says by Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, ISBN 97811138825567, Routledge, Abingdon, 2015.

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