Critical Thinking and EFL Students’ Performance on Open and Closed Reading Tasks

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Abbas Mousavi Behnia ¹ , Ramin Rahmany ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch
2 - Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch

Received: 2013-12-11 Accepted : 2014-01-11 Published : 2014-02-01

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