The Study of Using Prose Texts in Persian Textbooks for Non-Persian Speakers and Their Interests to These Texts

Discussing second language teaching, the issue of transferring the culture of foundation society to objective society has always been considered by the teachers and even some instructors have considered that the transfer of culture as the fifth constituent after reading, writing, speaking and listening, in teaching language as effective. In this research, we discussed the importance of teaching classical literature as the transmitter part ofculture to non-Persian speakers and also the rate of using prose literary texts in booklets of teaching Persian language to non-Persian have been discussed. The chairs of Persian language in foreign countries have been reviewed and 10 booklets that are taught in these chairs reviewed due to the high value of ancient prose texts, and finally three texts selected from Golestan, Kalila and Dimna, and contemporary literature. Then a questionnaire designed to evaluate the rate of non-Persian students’ interest to ancient Persian texts. The statistical society consisted of 100 language learners who were taught Persian language in teaching centers in Iran and also 30 instructors completed the special questionnaire for themselves. The data were used to access validity and reliability of this research. The results of this research indicated that advanced learners are interested in the literature of 7th and 8th century AH, especially Golestantexts, and presentation of simplified texts helped them to understand their contents.