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This book reports an experimental investigation on the effects of a new type of cooperative learning method namely ´Competitive Team-Based Learning´ (CTBL), developed by Dr Hosseini (2012) at Mashhad Education Office in Iran, and ´Student Teams-Achievement Divisions´ (STAD), developed by Slavin (1977) at Johns Hopkins University, in the US, on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL intermediate students. The results of the study showed that CTBL was more effective than STAD in improving the reading comprehension ability of Iranian EFL intermediate students.

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Mojtaba Akbarzadeh is interested in teaching methodology and has succeeded to publish some related articles. He is teaching in a language Institute. Dr Hosseini has published more than 150 bookticles. He has taught in different universities both in Iran and overseas. This book is a report on the effectiveness of his special approach to teaching.

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