THE RELATIONSHIPS OF FIELD INDEPENDENCE- DEPENDENCE WITH EFL LEARNERS ’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THEIR PERFORMANCE ON GRAMMAR TESTS: A CASE OF HIGH-

Recently, the interest of both teachers and researchers in the field of foreign language learning and teaching has increasingly focused on the learner, including the strategies which an individual uses in learning and communicating. The problem under investigation was to see whether there is any significant relationship among the field independence-dependence, attitudes and performing on grammatical structure by students from high schools of Sanandaj. It also examines separately the relationships of FD/I cognitive styles and the students ’ grammatical performance and also the relationships of attitudes and students ’ grammatical performance toward learning English. So 60 students of Farzanegan high school were selected. To measur