چکیده:
The present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means forinformation highlighted by advanced Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language. The study fo- cused on the discourse-pragmatically motivated variations of the basic word order such as inversion, pre- posing, it- and Wh-clefts. After taking the Nelson test, a homogeneous group was settled. For measuring the learners‟ comprehension, a set of meta-linguistic tests was administered consisting of an acceptability judgment task along with an error identification task. In the case of investigating the learners‟ production, they were supplied with a test of production consisting of discourse completion items. A total of 30 males and females who were all MA EFL learners served as the participants of this study. First, the production task was administered, and the learners went through the comprehension task in another session. Descrip- tive analysis and Pearson tests were performed on the data to test the hypotheses of the study. The results indicated that the advanced Iranian learners of English are aware of the syntactic options for structuring the information; however, they avoid producing these structures in their use of language to convey their proper pragmatic functions. Furthermore, there is no meaningful relationship between the learners‟ awareness and their use of marked structures.
خلاصه ماشینی:
"35-42),Spring 2013 Iranian Advanced EFL Learners’ Awareness and the Use of Marked Word Order: Discourse-pragmatically Motivated Variations Farzaneh Fotouhinia1* Esmaeel Bagheridoost2 1 Islamic Azad University- South Tehran Branch 2 Islamic Azad University- Bandar Abbas Branch Received: 23 April, 2011 Accepted: 13 January, 2012 ABSTRACT The present investigation was designed to study the production and comprehension of specific means forinformation highlighted by advanced Iranian learners of English as a Foreign Language.
In other words, the focusing of sentence constituents using specific syntactic constructions in English is a rather unexplored area in second language research and a potential learning problem even for advanced Iranian learners.
P1’s Scores in Discourse Completion Task ipants assumed that „the word order is wrong‟, 34 percent believed that „the sentence is pragmati- cally not acceptable in the context‟, and 26 per- It-cleft Wh- cleft inversion fronting unmarked cent thought that „the meaning of the sentence is unclear‟; finally, 11 percent stated their own rea- sons, that is, the learners either considered the sentences to be grammatically incorrect, or they presumed that the sentences sounded weird to them.
Finally, although the result of the Pearson test indicated that there was no relationship between the awareness and use of marked word orders in English, The findings showed correspondence between the comprehension and production of marked constructions in that there is a tendency in the learners to represent subject-prominent sentences specially it-clefts while inverted sen- tences were underrepresented in both tasks."