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Research Article

Comparing the effects of different advance organizers on EFL learners’ listening comprehension: Key vocabularies, previewing comprehension questions, and multimedia annotations

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Article: 1705666 | Received 07 Jan 2019, Accepted 19 Nov 2019, Published online: 24 Dec 2019

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