The Effect of Using Translation on Learning Grammatical Structures: A Case Study of Iranian Junior High School Students

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Hossein Ghaiyoomian ¹ , Gholam Reza Zarei ²

1 - Sheikhbahai University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

Received: 2015-06-16 Accepted : 2015-08-18 Published : 2015-08-18

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