Iranian EFL Learners' Attitudes toward the Application of Different Models of Dynamic Assessment to Listening Comprehension Instruction

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Mahshid Ghanaat ¹ , Fariba Rahimi Esfahani ² , Sajad Shafiee ³ , Mehrdad Sepehri ⁴

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

Received: 2022-03-22 Accepted : 2022-06-06 Published : 2023-02-01

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