The Relationship between the Emotional Intelligence of Iranian EFL Learners and Their Performance on the Listening Section of IELTS

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

hassti gholam-shahbazi ¹

1 - English Language Department, Faculty of persian Literature and foreign Language, Islamic Azad University South tehran branch,Tehran,Iran

Received: 2018-09-17 Accepted : 2018-10-16 Published : 2018-12-01

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