Fostering Academic Vocabulary Learning: Opportunities for Explicit Learning through a Mobile-Assisted App in the Field of Applied Linguistics

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زینب  عبداله پور ¹ (گروه زبان انگلیسی، واحد نقده، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، نقده، ایران.)
ننفیسه  اسدراده ملکی ² (گروه زبان انگلیسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد ملکان، ایران)

Received: 2023-02-08 Accepted : 2023-02-26 Published : 2023-04-01

Keywords: یادگیری واژگان, یادگیری واژگان دانشگاهی, یادگیری زبان به کمک موبایل, اپلیکیشن موبایل,

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