The effect of types of the tasks on the using objective marker “Ra” in the writing tasks of non-Persian Farsi learners

Factors such as discourse context, social characteristics of the speaker, language attitudes, and processability of learners on their levels influence a speaker’s use of a particular form. Some researches show that different tasks elicited different types of forms learners. In this study, we try to investigate the type’s influence of task on “Ra” (preposition for direct object in Persian language) and analysis that based on processability theory. The goal of this investigation is to determine similarities and differences between marked and unmarked nouns before using Ra in two types of tasks; conversational task and explanatory task. For doing this, we consider 35 conversational task and 35 explanatory task from level 6 Persian learners of Almahdi’s School. First of all we determine data of marked and unmarked nouns before Ra in these two types of task and label them. Then we show the frequency and distribution of each feature in these two types of tasks, finally we compare distribution of nouns (whether marked or unmarked specific nouns) in conversational tasks and explanatory tasks. The result of this research shows there is no a significant difference between marked and unmarked nouns in each task and between using specific nouns before Ra in these two types of tasks. It can be explainable this result based on processability and due to the level of the learners.