• Farid Ghaemi

  Author

• Atefeh Ghaedsharafi

  Author

This study dealt with the problem of teaching difficult structures of the second
language due to cross-linguistic influence of L1 in L2 (i.e. Persian & English respectively). This
study conducted with 90 female students at a language institute in Shiraz. The participants were
Persian native speakers and studying English as a foreign language. To investigate the effect of
explicit and implicit instruction. The students were divided in 3 groups. The first group of the
participants received implicit instruction of problematic materials, due to cross linguistic
influence of l1 in L2, The second group received explicit instruction and control group did not
receive any instruction. The results of this study revealed that explicit instruction of difficult
parts of the target language, due to the interference of their first language, and clearly
contrasting two languages, explaining the reason of confusion in producing those structures the
learners learn more efficiently in comparison with instruction through implicit instruction and
providing the learners many examples and much repetition of those structures.

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