The purpose of this research is to help instruct students the particular aspects of using articles in the Spanish language, a concept that has not yet been thoroughly studied by researchers. Articles are one of the most controversial issues in the Spanish language, since there are many controversies about their uses and functions. These differences creates many difficulties in learning the article for students taking Spanish as a secondlanguage. Therefore, through an experimentalstudy composed of a questionnaire that aimed at assessing Iranian learners’ competencies in three levels,an introductory level, an intermediate level and an advanced level, this paper aims to present the differentapplications of this linguistic element in the form of a specific model, divided into three categories,i.e., grammatical, syntactic and semantic. The study of learners’ errors in each of these categories will be discussed. Finally, the main factors affecting these errors in order to facilitate the understanding and learning of the article are identified.
Parvizi, P. (2012). A Study of the Causes of Errors Made by Iranian Learners in the Application of Spanish DefiniteArticles. Journal of Foreign Language Research, 2(2), 5-21. doi: 10.22059/jflr.2012.50915
MLA
Pardis Parvizi. "A Study of the Causes of Errors Made by Iranian Learners in the Application of Spanish DefiniteArticles", Journal of Foreign Language Research, 2, 2, 2012, 5-21. doi: 10.22059/jflr.2012.50915
HARVARD
Parvizi, P. (2012). 'A Study of the Causes of Errors Made by Iranian Learners in the Application of Spanish DefiniteArticles', Journal of Foreign Language Research, 2(2), pp. 5-21. doi: 10.22059/jflr.2012.50915
VANCOUVER
Parvizi, P. A Study of the Causes of Errors Made by Iranian Learners in the Application of Spanish DefiniteArticles. Journal of Foreign Language Research, 2012; 2(2): 5-21. doi: 10.22059/jflr.2012.50915
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