Author/Authors :
Khademi ، Mojtaba نويسنده M.A Holder, South branch, Payam-e-Noor university, Tehran, Iran , , Aghili ، Hassan نويسنده M.A Holder, North Branch, Tehran Azad University, Iran , , Harati ، Hoda نويسنده M.A. Holder, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran , Iran ,
Abstract :
Onomatopoeic words are those words which are imitation of the sounds in the nature. Since all these words are the same in all the world it seems that all these words must be the same through all human languages. In this research the researchers tried to account for this similarity between English and Farsi onomatopoeic sounds . In doing so they made two different tests consisting of one selection test for selecting appropriate set of words and a matching test based on the results of the selection test - in two parts each of which consisted of twenty English onomatopoeic words and their equivalents in Farsi and asked the participants whom were 40 Iranian male EFL learners in preintermediate level to match the items in the matching test and they saw that not only there is not a high relationship between English and Farsi onomatopoeic words, but also a partly big difference exists in some cases.
