Production of English be-passive by Farsi-speaking EFL learners: A cognitive-construction grammar approach

English passive has always been regarded as a challenge by Farsi-speaking EFL learners. Despite the presence of many linguistic and pedagogical approaches in studying and teaching English passive، there still appears to be a pedagogical gap facing Farsi-speaking EFL learners dealing with this construction. Taking up the cognitive-construction grammar perspective، the present article aims to investigate some aspects of the Farsi learners'' errors emerged in forming English be-passive. In the present article، while investigating the linguistic behavior of Farsi-speaking EFL learners in forming English be-passive through designing and implementing a writing experiment on a group of 30 subjects of intermediate proficiency level، we found that subjects show a variety of performance errors which can be analyzed in terms of cognitive-construction grammar approach، and consequently، several suggestions can be put forth for teaching English be-passive to Farsi-speaking EFL learners.