The Causes of Difficulties in Understanding the German Short Story by Persian Learners from the Perspective of Text Linguistics

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Assistance Professor, German Department, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

To study the causes of difficulties in understanding the German short story by
Persian learners from the perspective of text linguistics first we have searched
the factors of cohesion and coherence in German texts in a short story. Then we
have checked its translations by the students and observed that these people are
familiar with the grammatical structure of each sentence and the vocabulary of
this text, however, they can’t understand its meaning and most translations
contains separated sentences. Indeed text difficulty rooted in lack of proficiency
in deep structure and not in surface structure. Deterrent to understand the
mentioned story more pertain to topic, isotopy, presupposition and particularly
mismatch of frame and script, as well as in cases lack of recurrence and explicit
text links.

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Journal of Foreign Language Research
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring & Summer
April 2014
Pages 77-91

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