An investigation into perfectionism as a moderator of the links between language learning styles and strategies

Journal of Language Teaching and Research

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1121-1131

  Fahim, Mansoor ^a   Noormohammadi, Rezvan ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Ectenic style; Language learning strategies; Negative perfectionism; Positive perfectionism; Synoptic style

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960922395     PISSN: 17984769     EISSN: 20530684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jltr.5.5.1121-1131     Document Type: Article

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