Effects of Social Networking on Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Acquisition

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Fatemeh Khansarian-Dehkordi ¹ , Ahmad Ameri-Golestan ²

1 - Department of English, Isfahan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
2 - Department of English, Majlesi Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

Received: 2016-01-19 Accepted : 2017-01-30 Published : 2017-01-30

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