Reading Comprehension Passages of Iranian General English Books and MA Reading Comprehension Tests: A Corpus Analysis
This is a corpus study aimed to compare six Iranian general English university textbook’s reading comprehension passages and the passages of reading comprehension section of MA exams from 2010 to 2014. The study used three reading related factors to make the comparison: vocabulary coverage, syntacti...
Main Authors: | Seyyed Bagher Mirshojaee, Rahman Sahragard |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin,
2015-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies |
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Online Access: | http://jmrels.journals.ikiu.ac.ir/article_797_9523fd0a3ac5e740286984698b3963e8.pdf |
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