A Comparative Study on the Effectiveness of Cognitive, Affective, and Personality Traits on English Foreign Language Learners’ Lexical Knowledge
Subject Areas :Mohammad Rostampour 1 , Seyyedeh Mitra Niroomand 2
1 - Department of English,Abadeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Abadeh, Iran
2 - Department of Humanities, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Shiraz, Iran.
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