Relationship between Personality Traits/Learning Styles and EAP Students’ Reading Proficiency in Online Courses

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Nastaran Razavi ¹ , Omid Tabatabaei ² , Hadi Salehi ³ , zahra fotovatnia ⁴

1 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
3 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
4 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2021-11-17 Accepted : 2022-04-07 Published : 2022-04-01

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