Study of language identity and second language identity development (case study: province of kurdistan)

This article draws on the research of Kordestan Province Residents to find out the correlation between language identity and language identity development. The present research is a descriptive survey, a type of correlational research method. For this purpose, 407 questionnaires were distributed among statistical samples. Sampling was done by proportional classification method. The reliability of the questionnaire was obtained and confirmed by Cronbachchr('39')s alpha and its validity was confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis. The study was done in the light of  Khatib and Rezaei (2013(and  Taylor (2010) method, the language identity and the second language identity model. To test the research hypothesis, correlation test, Pearson test and structural equation model were used. The results show that except for pronounciation, there is a meaningful negative correlation among the categories of language identity and language identity development in residents living in Kurdistan province and regarding  to language identity development, loyalty has the most explanatory role.