How Motivation and Collaborative Learning Impact Vocabulary Learning: The Case of Iranian High School Learners

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Masoumeh Kouhsarian ¹ , Behrooz Ghoorchaei ² , Omid Mazandarani ³ , Nematullah Shomoossi ⁴

1 - Islamic Azad University of Gorgan, Gorgan, Iran
2 - Department of English, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English Language Teaching, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran
4 - School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

Received: 2023-02-10 Accepted : 2023-03-11 Published : 2023-06-01

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