Hedges in English for Academic Purposes: A Corpus-based study of Iranian EFL learners

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Hossein khazaee ¹ , Parviz Maftoon ² , Parviz Birjandi ³ , Ghafour Rezaie Golandoz ⁴

1 - Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
3 - Department of English, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
4 - Department of English, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran

Received: 2020-04-13 Accepted : 2020-08-16 Published : 2020-03-01

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