An Activity Theoretical Investigation into the Dominant Composition and Translation Activities of EFL learners across Persian and English

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Yusef Rajabi ¹

1 - English Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-10-03 Accepted : 2018-10-03 Published : 2018-04-01

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