The effect of humorous passages on developing learners’ reading comprehension

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Niloufar Poor Rahmani ¹ , Mohammad Taghi Hassani ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Takestan Branch
2 - Emam Hossein University

Received: 2013-10-31 Accepted : 2013-12-07 Published : 2014-02-01

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