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Mapping Different Culturally Oriented Texts over EFL Learners' Reading Indices via Project-Based Learning

  • 1. Department of English Language and Literature, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
  • 2. English Department, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
  • 3. English Department, Sabzevar branch, Islamic Azad University, Sabzevar, Iran

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This article made attempts to examine the implementation of diverse culturally- loaded materials among some EFL university students to see their impact on foreign language reading anxiety, reading comprehension self-efficacy and reading proficiency of the learners via two constructed teaching schemes that were labeled project- and teacher- based teaching methods.

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