The Effect of Contrastive Analysis on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners of L2 Adjective Knowledge

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Mahboobeh Joze Tajareh ¹ , Mohammadreza Khodareza ²

1 - Department of English language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IRAN.
2 - Department of English language, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, IRAN.

Received: 2014-12-15 Accepted : 2015-01-28 Published : 2015-02-01

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