Relationship between iranian efl learners' beliefs about language learning, their language learning strategy use and their language proficiency

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue , 2011, Pages 1029-1033

  Abedini, Atieh ^a   Rahimi, Ali ^a   Zare Ee, Abbas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Beliefs about language learning; Language learning strategies; Language proficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055223454     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.11.188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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