Corpus-Based Insights into Modeling a Level-Specific Persian Language Proficiency Test (PLPT): Development and Factor Structure of the PLPT Listening Tasks

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  • Mahmood Bijankhan Full Professor, University of Tehran
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volume 5  issue شماره یک- پیاپی 11

pages  19- 42

publication date 2016-06-21

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