The Effect of Metacognitive Strategies Training on Reading Comprehension of Field-dependent / Field- independent Learners

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mehdi Sheykhi ¹ , Zohre Mohamadi ²

1 - English Teaching Department, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
2 - English Teaching Department, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2017-02-22 Accepted : 2017-02-22 Published : 2016-09-01

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