Iranian EFL Teachers' Attitudes towards the Effectiveness of ELT Conferences

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Ebrahim Mohammadkarimi ¹ , Javad Gholami ² , Mehdi Sarkhosh ³

1 - Department of English Language Teaching, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2 - Department of English Language Teaching, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
3 - Department of English Language Teaching, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Received: 2021-02-10 Accepted : 2021-06-03 Published : 2021-10-01

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