Setting Threshold Language Proficiency Levels for the Iranian High School EFL Teachers

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Sadegh Shariatifar ¹ , Gholamreza Kiany ²

1 - Faculty of Literature and Foreign Languages, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran
2 - English Language Department, Faculty of humanities, Tarbiyat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-03-02 Accepted : 2018-05-27 Published : 2018-09-01

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