The Most Common Challenges Facing Iranian English Majors in the Translation Process from English into Persian

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Narcisse Memarzia ¹ , Rahman Sahragard ² , Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo ³ , Shahram Afraz ⁴

1 - Department of English Language, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University,Qeshm, Iran
2 - Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
3 - Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
4 - Department of English, Qeshm Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qeshm, Iran

Received: 2020-05-19 Accepted : 2020-09-15 Published : 2020-03-01

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