A Summary of

[A Critical Survey of Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis in a Multilingual(Persian& Turkish and

English Context) Community]

By: [Behnam Behfrouz, Ameneh Joghataee]

Payam Noor University, Joveyn Independent Researcher

International Research Journal of Applied Sciences [IRJABS]

Vol, 8 (11): 1870-1873

2014

Summarized By: Aamaal AL- dowah

The Main Purpose The present study attempted to emphasize the dis/advantages of moderate
of the Study: version of CAH through critical investigation of strong and weak versions

In 1970, a proposal suggested by Oller and Ziahosseiny (1970), regarding the

interpretation of language learners errors as well as predicting them, as the
moderate version of CAH. In their hypothesis which was based on a study, they
revealed that whatever the patterns of two language systems are minimally
Background of the distinct, learners face with some problems on the basis of learning when two
Study: items are similar while a little interference happens when there are two distinct
items to be learned. Ziahosseiny (1999) claimed that one of the most important
advantages of moderate version that it can explain both interlingual errors
which are related to the native language and intralingual errors dealing with
target language. Moreover, some errors are due to overgeneralization can be
interpreted and predicted on the basis of moderate version.

Participants: Iranian EFL learners of secondary and high schools, junior

university students. About 100 persons without age and sex limitations.

Instruments: A list of words which were similar in meaning and form among
Methodology Used: Turkish, Persian, and English was provided by the researcher.

Procedures: The study lasted for three months. During this time some
vocabulary were assigned to the learners, and then asked them to learn their
pronunciation and meaning.

The results of the study revealed that all learners were successful in producing
of those words which were similar or the same in form and meaning in both
Main Findings: language systems. This finding also proved the moderate version of CAH which
proposed by Oller and Ziahosseiny (1970) to be ambiguous in nature.
 Any language can be taught easily and systematically by CAH with the moderate
version of it. Such a method will facilitate the process of vocabulary learning
Lessons Learned across different languages. It can be applied in schools and colleges of languages
as a very great contribution to bring the languages closer and easier to be
learned.