An Investigation on The Enclitic Compound Verbs in Persian Language Teaching Textbooks

Enclitic Compound Verbs in Persian are among the controversial issues in Persian linguistics and grammar, and the common research done on the topic seems to be limited to the inflectional structure of these verbs. Up to now, no research with pedagogical and educational implications has been carried out on these verbs. Therefore, a pedagogical study on this category of verbs can be an effective measure in facilitating Persian language teaching. The present article examines four sources of Persian language teaching textbooks, by Ahmad Saffar Moghadam, Yadollah Samrah, Mehdi Zarghamian, and Fatemeh Jafari's Persian Grammar, in terms of their methods of introducing such compound verbs. The article aims to find out whether special attention has been paid to them in the educational resources of the Persian language, and if so, in which category they have been located. The investigation revealed that these verbs educationally have been considered and discussed separately from other verbs in Persian textbooks. In this regard, the quantitative and qualitative descriptions of the number and variety of these verbs in the mentioned books are presented.