The Role of Critical Sociological Thinking on Young Iranian Advanced EFL Learners' Ingenuity of English Conversation

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Maryam Kaviani ¹ , Sahar Mahdavi ²

1 - Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Department of English, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran
2 - MA in Psychology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran

Received: 2021-12-18 Accepted : 2021-12-18 Published : 2022-03-01

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