Shedding Light on Ecological Critical Language Awareness Construct: A Questionnaire Development and Validation Study in the Iranian EFL Context

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Ghazaleh Cheraghpour Samvati ¹ , Parviz Maftoon ² , Mojgan Rashtchi ³

1 - Department of English, Faculty of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of English, Faculty of Literature, Humanities, and Social Sciences, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - TEFL Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-11-25 Accepted : 2023-01-16 Published : 2023-09-01

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