The impact of Persian transfer on Kurd learners’ idiom comprehension: parts of body in focus

Subject Areas : Journal of Teaching English Language Studies

Samira Sayadi ¹ , Bahador Sadeghi ²

1 - Islamic Azad University, Taketan Branch Department of English Language
2 -

Received: 2016-04-03 Accepted : 2016-05-04 Published : 2016-05-01

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