21.5202, Qs: Baluchi, Persian and English: Questionnaire Advice

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Subject: 21.5202, Qs: Baluchi, Persian and English: Questionnaire Advice

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Date: 30-Nov-2010
From: Tayyebe Noori [nooritayebe at yahoo.com]
Subject: Baluchi, Persian and English: Questionnaire Advice
 

	
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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:12:00
From: Tayyebe Noori [nooritayebe at yahoo.com]
Subject: Baluchi, Persian and English: Questionnaire Advice

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Hello,

I'm an MA student in linguistics in southeast of Iran working on the 
Baluchi language for my thesis. The title of my thesis is "A Comparison 
of English Language Structure Learning between Monolingual and 
Bilingual English Foreign Learners (EFL) of Zahedan, Iranshahr & 
Chabahar Universities, (Southeastern Iran)".

I've tried to find a questionnaire measuring grammar structure between 
Persian students and Baloch students who are learning English as a 
3rd language in courses at the universities, but I couldn't find 
anything on the internet. 

I found out that Balouchi language has more accents and even 
dialects; I considered Baluchi language structure which is spoken in the 
north of Sistan & Baluchestan province located in the southeast of Iran. 
There are not many differences between these two languages 
structurally: they are mainly different in how they use adjectives and 
possessive adjectives. Baluchi people in this part of the province use 
adjectives and possessive adjectives in a way that is like the English 
structure, so this means adjectives and possessive adjectives come 
before nouns, whereas in Persian they follow nouns.

So I need two types of the tests for testing the students' grammar 
structure. The first one is a usual proficiency standard test for the 2nd 
and 3rd term English learning students, and then after controlling the 
variables and making my statistical society homogeneous, I should use 
a second type of the test, that would be a usual English grammar test. 

Any advice or tips in creating such tests would be very helpful. Or, if 
anyone knows of tests like this that already exist, I would be grateful if 
you could direct me to them. 

Also if you could help me, or at least you know more people working on 
the Baluchi language all over the world, and could put me in contact 
with them, that would be very kind of you, and I will be more thankful, if 
you ask them about that questionnaire, measuring just grammar 
structure on Baluchi students learning English as their third language.

Also if you have some new online books (like an Iranian Baluchi 
language grammar) and also books and essays on bilingualism, and 
learning a third language, that would be really helpful.

I thank you all for helping me on my thesis. 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Balochi, Southern (bcc)
                     Balochi, Western (bgn)




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