CONTENTS Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations The Contributors Chapter 1 Introduction POUNEH SHABANI-JADIDI PART I: Theory-Driven Research on Second Language Acquisition of Persian Chapter 2 The Acquisition of Segmental and Suprasegmental Features in Second Language Persian: A Focus on Prosodic Parameters of Politeness REZA FALAHATI Chapter 3 Heritage versus Second Language Phonology YASAMAN RAFAT Chapter 4 Linguistics Competence of Persian Heritage versus Second Language Speakers KARINE MEGERDOOMIAN Chapter 5 Negative Forms of Persian Progressive Tenses: Evidence from Monolingual, Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers of Persian AZITA TALEGHANI Chapter 6 Second Language Morphology: Case of Idiomatic Expressions POUNEH SHABANI-JADIDI Chapter 7 Some Unique Semantic Properties of Persian MASOUD JASBI Chapter 8 Second Language Acquisition of the Semantics of Focus-Sensitive Operators in Persian MARZIEH MORTAZAVINIA PART II: Language Skills in Second Language Acquisition of Persian Chapter 9 Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: Persian Resources and Teaching and Learning Strategies MICHAEL CRAIG HILLMANN Chapter 10 Second Language Grammar: Challenges in Grammar for English-Speaking Learners BEHROOZ MAHMOODI-BAKHTIARI Chapter 11 Second Language Listening in Persian YASS ALIZADEH Chapter 12 Second Language Speaking in Persian MUSA NUSHI Chapter 13 Second Language Reading in Persian NAHAL AKBARI AND ALI REZA ABASI Chapter 14 Second Language Writing in Persian ALI REZA ABASI Part III: Classroom Research in Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian Chapter 15 Teaching Persian for Proficiency in American Colleges and Universities MEHDI MARASHI Chapter 16 Communicative, Task-Based, and Content-Based Approaches to Persian Language Teaching: Second Language, Mixed and Heritage Classes at the University Level LATIFEH HAGIGI AND MICHELLE QUAY Chapter 17 The Persian Language Educator''s Role in Developing Effective Blended Language Learning: From Principles to Practice DARIA MIZZA AND MOHAMAD ESMAILI-SARDARI Chapter 18 Using Technology to Develop Instructional Materials for Persian Based on Task-Based Language Teaching PEYMAN NOJOUMIAN Chapter 19 Teaching Persian through Short Stories with Parallel Elaboration ANOUSHA SHAHSAVARI Chapter 20 Teaching Persian Literature in Persian: A Content-Based Approach ASGHAR SEYED GOHRAB Chapter 21 Development of a Standard Persian Language Proficiency Test for Speakers of Other Languages AMIR REZA VAKILIFARD Chapter 22 Second Language Assessment in Persian NAHAL AKBARI Part IV: Social Aspects of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian Chapter 23 Persian as a National Language, Minority Languages and Multilingual Education in Iran NEGAR DAVARI ARDAKANI Chapter 24 Teaching Persian Varieties and Dialects: Persian Reference Framework MAHINNAZ MIRDEHGHAN AND SAEED REZA YOUSEFI Chapter 25 The Acquisition of Persian Pragmatic Competence: A Case Study about the Comprehension of Conversational Implicature and Presupposition in the Learners of Persian as a Second/Foreign Language ZAHRA HAMEDI SHIRVAN Chapter 26 Persian as an Interlanguage MAHBOD GHAFFARI Chapter 27 Interlanguage and Beyond: Persian-English Codeswitching SHAHRZAD MAHOOTIAN AND LEWIS GEBHARDT Chapter 28 Language Learning Strategies and Beliefs about Language Learning: A Study of University Students of Persian in the United States AZITA MOKHTARI Chapter 29 Utilization of Neologisms in Teaching and Assessment of Advanced Persian: A Sociolinguistic Approach RAMIN SARRAF.