Error Analysis and Inter-Language of Chinese Persian Learners; According to Corder’s Hypothesis

Error analysis developed when contrastive analysis was abolished. After sometimes error analysis lost its popularity too. But in recent years error analysis and inter-language were considered again. The theoretical framework of this article is Corder’s classified error analysis (1976) and Selinker’s fossilization and inter-language framework (1972). In this article, the inter-language and error analysis of 4 Chinese learners at advanced level were analyzed. The aim of this research was to identify the inter-language features as a unique language in learning process. The research method was a field one and the students’ papers were collected during 4 progressive months. The written texts include different creative and repetitive subjects. The individual inter-language of each learner was analyzed. The results showed that the majority of fossilized errors which were the main part of inter-language rules of language learners were related to the grammatical part and selection module. Moreover, as the inter-language contains two kinds of special and general rules, errors were divided into two parts too: inter-language and intra-language. The main origin of inter-language errors was negative transfer from the source language which caused fossilization and penetration of its rules into inter-language of language learner. The results of this research may deeply affect the development of teachers’, students’, and instructional designers’ functions.