a generative syntactic representation among iranian bilingual speakers of english language; the case study of iranian arab bilingual speakers’ grammar

this study attended to investigate the acquisition of syntactic attributes of passive forms of simple present, simple past, present perfect, past perfect, simple future tenses, and to be verbs in present (am, is, are) in bilingual speakers of english in elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of language proficiency and across a generative framework. generative models are usually connected with issues like universal grammar (ug), language transfer, and morphological changeability. therefore, this paper have had an attempt to scrutinize the assertions and forecasts made by the generative theories of rdh, msih, and structurebuilding model. for doing so, 36 arabic bilingual speakers of english selected for the study. on the basis of oxford placement test, they were grouped to three levels of language proficiency. after that, they received a translation task and a grammaticality judgment test. the findings detected that there was basic discrepancies among speakers of the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels of language proficiency in their performance. moreover, the speakers in all levels of language proficiency performed better on gjt compared to tt.