PERSIAN EFL STUDENTS’ ERROR ANALYSIS

The present study entitled Analysis of Errors Committed by Persian Learners of English is an attempt made to collect, describe, analyse and evaluate the errors were made by the intermediate level students from the Simin Institute in Ramsar, Iran. Ten Persian sentences from Contrastive analysis and error analysis by Keshavarz, M.H. (1999) were given to students to convert to English. The result of the study indicate that the majority of errors produced by these learners involve syntactico-morphological errors in the Descriptive of Errors, substituion in the Process of Errors, and Intralingual errors in the Source of Errors.