The Interrelationship Among EFL Teachers’ Smart Classroom Management, Their Students’ Learning Approach, Positive Orientation, and Language Learning

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Afsaneh Ghanizadeh ¹ , Shirin Maloomi ²

1 - English department, Imam Reza International University, Mashhad, Iran
2 - English Department, Imam Reza International University, Mashhad, Iran

Received: 2023-05-30 Accepted : 2023-07-12 Published : 2023-10-01

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