The Effect of Mobile-mediated Dynamic Assessment on EFL Learners’ L2 Vocabulary Knowledge

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Afrooz Rezaei ¹ , Fatemeh Behjat ² , Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri ³

1 - Department of English, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran
2 - Department of English, Abadeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadeh, Iran
3 - Department of English, Shiraz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran

Received: 2021-11-19 Accepted : 2021-12-25 Published : 2022-09-01

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