Transitivity Processes in Quantitative Versus Qualitative Applied Linguistics Research Articles' Discussions

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Marzieh Bagherkazemi ¹ , Zahra Dehini ² , Maryam Jalali Moghaddam ³ , Bita Ghalandar-Zehi ⁴

1 - Department of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University (South Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University (South Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English Language Teaching, Payam-e-Noor University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of English Language Teaching, Islamic Azad University (South Tehran Branch), Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-03-06 Accepted : 2022-04-24 Published : 2023-02-01

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