The Impact of a Custom-Made Vocabulary Application on the Vocabulary Recognition of Iranian EFL Learners

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Faramarz Kazemainy ¹ , Hamed Barjesteh ² , Nassim Golaghaei ³ , Atefeh Nasrollahi Mouziraji ⁴

1 - Department of English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, Iran
2 - Department of English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, Iran
3 - ELT Department, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran
4 - Department of English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Amol, Iran

Received: 2021-01-29 Accepted : 2021-05-30 Published : 2021-07-03

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