The relationship between test-taking strategies and Iranian EFL learners’ performance on reading comprehension tests
Subject Areas :Maryam Bahardoost 1 , Alireza Ahmadi 2
1 - Department of English, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm , Iran
2 - Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, University of Shiraz, Shiraz, Iran
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