An Evaluation of American English File Series

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Behnam Ghasemi ¹ , Hamid Reza Haghverdi ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Islamic Azad University, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2012-01-25 Accepted : 2012-03-14 Published : 2012-03-14

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