Influencing EFL learners' reading comprehension and self-efficacy beliefs: The effect of concept mapping strategy;Influencias sobre las creencias de comprensión y eficacia del alumnado de inglés como lengua extranjera: El efecto de la estrategia de mapas de conceptos

Porta Linguarum

Volumn , Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9-27

  Khajavi, Yaser ^a   Ketabi, Saeed ^b  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Concept mapping; Iranian EFL learners; Reading comprehension; Self efficacy beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856350475     PISSN: 16977467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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