Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn)
Vol 9, No 3: August 2015

Bilingualism and Vocabulary Learning: A Comparison between Baluchi and Persian EFL Learners

Yahya Keikhaie (University of Sistan and Baluchestan)
Amirali Khoshkhoonejad (University of Sistan and Baluchestan)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2015

Abstract

Bilingualism can be broadly defined as the ability to speak 2 languages; however there are many grey areas when establishing which are the first language, second language and third language of a bilingual. The paper reports on a study exploring the effect of bilingualism on the learning of a vocabulary learning of two groups of Iranian male students: Baluchi bilinguals and Persian monolingual. The present study is based on data from 80 monolingual Persian-speaking learners of English and 80 bilingual Baluchi-Persian-speaking learners of English. All the participants were male studying English as a foreign language at pre-university of Sistan and Baluchestan in Iran. The results indicates that Baluchi-Persian bilingual speakers outperformed in general and in L3 recognition vocabulary learning. The findings of this paper also showed that no significant difference was seen between Persian-speaking learners and Baluchi-Persian-speaking in L3 production vocabulary learning.

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EduLearn

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Humanities Education Library & Information Science Social Sciences Other

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Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) ISSN: 2089-9823, e-ISSN 2302-9277 is a multi-disciplinary, peer-refereed open-access international journal which has been established for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of education, teaching, development, instruction, ...