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...

this research study aimed at examining the use of vocabulary learning strategies of iranian male and female intermediate efl learners and the relationship between gender and the use of these strategies at shokouh language institue in iran. 80 efl learners who were at intermediate level participated in this study. this study used kudo’s (1999) classification of vocabulary learning strategies inc...

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The present study investigated the relationship between Iranian EFL learners' beliefs about language learning and language learning strategy use. A sample of 104 B.A and M.A Iranian EFL learners majoring in English participated in this study. Three instruments, the Michigan Test of English Language Proficiency (MTELP), Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI), and the Strategy Inventor...

One of the major challenges of language acquisition is the fact that the auditory signal received by a child underdetermines the structural description of the utterance. This paper approaches the problem by capitalizing on the optimizing structure of Optimality Theory. The learner uses a hypothesized grammar to make a best guess at the full structural description of an observed overt form, llin...

Although the importance of strategies used by learners to regulate their own language learning is widely accepted, the lack of longitudinal studies in the language learning strategy field has long been recognised. This article reports on a study conducted in a private English language school for international students in Auckland, New Zealand, which aimed to investigate how progress in language...

this qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning english as a foreign language (efl) in costa rica and the reasons of high school students for learning german as a foreign language (gfl) in the us. it asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. the analysis of 27 interviews in a us high ...