ICT Comes to ESP Course: Iranian Students and Teachers’ Perceptions of ICT Integration into ESP Instruction

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Bahareh Keshtiarast ¹ , Hadi Salehi ² , Omid Tabatabaei ³ , Roya Baharlooie ⁴

1 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
2 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
3 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran
4 - English Department, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

Received: 2020-10-22 Accepted : 2021-01-24 Published : 2021-11-01

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