Students and teachers frequently speculate as to which foreign language is the most difficult for Englishspeaking students to learn and what makes some languages harder to learn then others. No qualitative or quantitative analysis of language learning difficulty has been applied thus far to answer these questions satisfactorily. In this article, we attempt to put forth a set of criteria by whic...

Learner autonomy has become the area of interest by many researchers of foreign language learning in the recent years. However, few studies have been done concerning the case of Kurdish learners` autonomy in learning languages. For this reason, the current study addresses this gap. It intends to investigate to what extent Kurdish learners are autonomous in learning English language. The study i...