The Empirical Assessment of English for Specific Business Purpose (ESBP) Among Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) Staff

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Ahmad Moazzen ¹ , Akram Hashemi ²

1 - M.A., Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, Iran Faculty of Foreign Languages and Persian Literature
2 - Assistant professor of Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch, Iran Faculty of Foreign Languages and Persian Literature

Received: 2015-09-08 Accepted : 2015-09-08 Published : 2014-03-01

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