The Effect of Typological Awareness on Learning Persian for Italian Learners

One of the main problems of second language learners is learning grammar. In this research, We have tried to facilitate learning Persian grammar for Italian learners learning Persian by using the achievements of linguistics typology. For this purpose, similarities and differences between Persian and Italian are determined using typological word order. For the next step, without pointing out typological similarities and differences of Persian and Italian, the grammatical points were taught to the participants and then they were tested (pre-test).the test was in three parts. In the first part, sentences were presented in Italian and the participants were asked to choose the correct equivalent among four choices. In the second part, the participants were asked to translate Italian sentences into Persian. In the third part of the test, the participants were asked to translate a designed Italian text into Persian. Finally, after a certain period of time, the grammatical points were taught to the participants considering typological differences and similarities between Persian and Italian. Finally, the test (post-test) was performed. Data analysis showed that the participants' mean scores in the post-test were higher than their mean scores in the pre-test. In addition, the analysis of inferential statistic shows that the difference is considerable which means that the independent variable, awareness of typological features of Persian and Italian, has an impact on dependent variable which is participants’ scores. Therefore, being aware of these features (similarities and differences) could help the Italian language learners to get a better score.