Virtualization of Conceptual Model of Education: An Effective Step in Teaching Persian Language to Non-Persian Speakers

Considering the importance of online teaching of Persian language to non-Persian speakers and the limitations and problems of this type of education such as such as decreasing teacher-student interaction, lack of motivation and reluctance of learners to participate in class discussions as well as distancing themselves from doing interactive tasks, the present applied research in a bid to deal with the mentioned issues and problems, attempted to focus on the proposal of Persian language teaching based on the conceptual model of education and to provide solutions for its online teaching. The conceptual model of education includes macro-cognitive competence (creative, critical, systemic and futuristic thinking), social-emotional (intra-personal and interpersonal management), sensory-perceptual (sensory and environment management) and values that are proposed for aligning educational activities with the education system. In this research, which was conducted in a qualitative manner, in order to teach the four language skills, i.e. listening, speaking, reading and writing through an online platform based on the components of the conceptual model of education, first, a sample lesson for the advanced level of teaching Persian language to non-Persian speakers was simulated based on the mentioned model and after that, solutions for teaching it effectively on an online platform have been presented. The findings of the present research indicate that Persian language teaching on an online platform based on the mentioned model is practical and applicable and can help to remove the problems and limitations of this type of teaching.