Iranian Male and Female EFL learners’ Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies: Links to Their Reading Comprehension Performance

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Sepideh Mohammadi Bazargani ¹ , Zohreh Seifoori ² , Nasrin Hadidi Tamjid ³

1 - Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

Received: 2022-03-06 Accepted : 2022-09-08 Published : 2022-07-01

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