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Creating Activities Towards Improving Functional Literacy: Examples from North Macedonia

By: Kalina Maleska  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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Language: English
Page range: 14 - 29
Published on: Dec 6, 2025
Published by: University of Białystok
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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