EFL Textbooks, L2 Contacts, and Teacher Self-Efficacy: Impact on Learners’ Development of Oral Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Manoochehr Jafarigohar ¹ , Mehdi Karami ² , zia Tajeddin ³ , Afsar Rouhi ⁴

1 - Associate Professor of TEFL, Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 - PhD Candidate of TEFL, Payame Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
3 - Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language Teaching, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Associate Professor of TEFL, Department of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2019-09-19 Accepted : 2019-09-19 Published : 2019-04-01

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