The University of Tehran Journal of Foreign Language Research 2588-4123 3 1 2013 03 21 The Causes of Difficulties in Understanding the German Short Story by Persian Learners from the Perspective of Text Linguistics The Causes of Difficulties in Understanding the German Short Story by Persian Learners from the Perspective of Text Linguistics 77 91 53764 10.22059/jflr.2013.53764 FA Rana Raeisi Assistance Professor, German Department, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Journal Article 2014 05 25 To study the causes of difficulties in understanding the German short story by<br />Persian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searched<br />the factors of cohesion and coherence in German texts in a short story. Then we<br />have checked its translations by the students and observed that these people are<br />familiar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary of<br />this text, however, they can’t understand its meaning and most translations<br />contains separated sentences. Indeed text difficulty rooted in lack of proficiency<br />in deep structure and not in surface structure. Deterrent to understand the<br />mentioned story more pertain to topic, isotopy, presupposition and particularly<br />mismatch of frame and script, as well as in cases lack of recurrence and explicit<br />text links. To study the causes of difficulties in understanding the German short story by<br />Persian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searched<br />the factors of cohesion and coherence in German texts in a short story. Then we<br />have checked its translations by the students and observed that these people are<br />familiar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary of<br />this text, however, they can’t understand its meaning and most translations<br />contains separated sentences. Indeed text difficulty rooted in lack of proficiency<br />in deep structure and not in surface structure. Deterrent to understand the<br />mentioned story more pertain to topic, isotopy, presupposition and particularly<br />mismatch of frame and script, as well as in cases lack of recurrence and explicit<br />text links. https://jflr.ut.ac.ir/article_53764_bb0b0352443d76aa923d0fc3dd7ccce4.pdf