Cultural Content Analysis of Iranian ELT Coursebooks: A Comparison of Vision I & II with English for Pre-University students I & II

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Zhale Saeedi ¹ , Mohsen Shahrokhi ²

1 - English Department, Shahreza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza, Iran
2 - Department of English, Shahreza Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahreza, Iran

Received: 2019-02-13 Accepted : 2019-06-27 Published : 2019-12-01

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