A Comparative Study of Reading Comprehension Texts in Touchstone Series: A Social-Semiotic Perspective

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Maryam Farnia ¹ , Sara Gerami ²

1 - Department of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Iran
2 - Department of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor University, Iran

Received: 2019-03-19 Accepted : 2019-05-18 Published : 2019-07-01

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