The Interplay between Ethnic Identities and Social Attitude toward Foreign Language Learning and Language Proficiency of Young Gilak EFL Learners

Subject Areas : Sociological Studies of Youth

Farzad Mahmoudi Largani ¹ , Davood Mashhadi Heidar ² , Seyyed Jalal Alavian ³

1 - Department of TEFL, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of TEFL, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran
3 - Department of TEFL, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran

Received: 2018-10-01 Accepted : 2018-10-01 Published : 2018-07-01

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