New Perspective in PROSPECT: An Assessment of Strengths and Weaknesses of Iranian Second Year Junior High School English Textbooks

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Narges Sardabi ¹ , Mansour Koosha ²

1 - Ershad Damavand University
2 - Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan)

Received: 2015-10-22 Accepted : 2015-12-21 Published : 2015-12-21

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