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This study was an experimental investigation on the effects of a new type of cooperative learning (CL) method namely ´Competitive Team-Based Learning´ (CTBL), developed by Hosseini (2009, 2012, 2018) at Mashhad Education Office in Iran, and ´Reciprocal Teaching of Reading´ (RTR), developed by Palinscar, at the University of Michigan, and Brown (1985), at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on the reading comprehension of Iranian EFL intermediate students. It was also tried to measure the attitude of the participants towards these methods before and after the study.

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Salari, Fatemeh
As an Iranian freelance liberal educator, Dr Hosseini is interested in democratic Education and has a zest for awakening, empowering, and emancipating the oppressed majority. He has published more than 150 bookticles. -Mrs Salari is, at present, teaching at some language institutes as well as universities in Mashhad, Iran.

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