Representing the Concept of Future in Persian Writings by Foreign Students: An Analysis Based on a Concept-oriented Approach

The present study represents the concept of future in the writings of foreign Persian learners based on three stages (pragmatics, lexical and morphological) concept-oriented approach. The corpus of this research is 50 texts written by Persian foreign students from China, Russia, Iraq, Uzbekistan and Syria, in elementary, intermediate and advanced language levels. The purpose of this study is to answer the question whether the application of the concept of future in Persian's writings based on the stages of the concept-oriented approach is represented or not. The study and analysis of Persian students’ writings showed that the concept of future is represented according to the three stages of the concept-oriented approach in Persian writing for students of elementary to advanced levels. The results showed that Persian learners in the first stage (pragmatics) are familiar with the concept of future and use their knowledge of the first language to understand and understand this concept. At higher language levels, with more learning of Persian, in addition to having a lexical stage, they also reach a morphological stage and use various forms to express the concept of the future.