Challenges in Translation Teaching in the Iranian Context: An Ethnographic Study

Subject Areas : All areas of language and translation

Mehrnoosh Amiri ¹ , Razieh Rabbani Yekta ²

1 - MA in Translation Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages, English Department , University of Isfahan, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics and Foreign languages, Payameh Noor University, Iran

Received: 2019-07-03 Accepted : 2019-07-03 Published : 2019-01-01

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