On the Relationship between Iranian EFL Teachers’ Self-regulation, Self-resiliency, Gender and Teaching Experience

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Nahid Partovi ¹ , Dara Tafazoli ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah Science & Research Branch, Kermanshah, Iran
2 - Department of English and German Philologies, University of Córdoba,Córdoba, Spain

Received: 2015-12-31 Accepted : 2016-06-16 Published : 2016-06-16

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