Iranian EFL Young Learners’ Responses to the Implementation of Collaborative and Individual Reading Activities in Reading Sessions

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Mania Koohafkan ¹ , Faramarz Azizmalayeri ² , Hossein Ahmadi ³

1 - Department of English language, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.
2 - Department of English language, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.
3 - Department of English language, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.

Received: 2021-05-11 Accepted : 2021-08-03 Published : 2022-06-01

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