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- Title
THE IMPACT OF THE HEAD-INITIAL/HEAD-FINAL PARAMETER ON READING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE: A HINDERING OR A FACILITATING FACTOR?
- Authors
Maleki, Ataollah
- Abstract
The fact that Persian is a head-final language, but English is a head-initial language may be one cause of Persian speakers' slow reading and low comprehension of English text. To examine the problem, we compared the reading skill of 75 Persian learners of English with that of 75 Turkish learners of English. Turkish like English is a head-initial language; therefore, it was hypothesized that Turkish learners perform much better on reading tests than their Persian counterparts. Two batteries of reading comprehension tests which included two types of passages were administered. The analysis of the results proved that the Turks read English faster and better than the Persians.
- Subjects
READING; READING comprehension; ENGLISH language; LECTURERS; TURKS
- Publication
Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2006, Vol 6, Issue 2, p154
- ISSN
1533-242X
- Publication type
Article