Impact of Elementary Learners’ L1 in Consciousness-raising Tasks on Their L2 Writing Accuracy

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Saeideh  Fatahzade ¹ (Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran)
Sajad  Shafiee ² (Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran)
Fariba  Rahimi Esfahani ³ (Department of English, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran)

Received: 2022-04-11 Accepted : 2022-05-19 Published : 2022-06-28

Keywords: دقت نوشتن, تمرینات افزایش آگاهی, فراگیران ابتدایی,

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