Reading Achievement of Short Stories as a Way of Literature Incorporation and Improving Iranian Students' Grammatical and Vocabulary Knowledge

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Akram Shekarian Behzadi ¹ , Azar Bagheri Masoudzade ²

1 - Ph.D. in Linguistics, Department of English Language, Kerman Branch, Farhangian University, Kerman, Iran
2 - Ph.D. in TEFL, Department of English Language, Kerman Branch, Farhangian University, Kerman, Iran

Received: 2022-04-25 Accepted : 2022-09-17 Published : 2022-07-01

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