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<article-title>Assessing the Suitability of &#8220;Sunrise&#8221; Programme to the Kurdish Learners of the Seventh Basic Grade in the Schools of Erbil City
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<author> Fatimah Rashid Hassan<sup>1</sup> and Omar Fouad Ghafor<sup>2</sup> </author>

<aff><sup>1</sup>University of Salahaddin, Iraq </aff>
<aff><sup>2</sup>University of Halabja, Iraq</aff>
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<p>The study aims at describing and analyzing the &#8220;Sunrise&#8221; programme and showing its positive and negative points. It also tries to assess and check the suitability of the programme to the Kurdish learners and to the teaching environment of Iraqi Kurdistan Region. For this purpose, two questionnaires were designed in this study; one of them is for the teachers and the other one for the students as real users of &#8220;Sunrise&#8221; to evaluate the suitability of this programme. The main finding of the study is that the &#8220;Sunrise&#8221; is an appropriate programme for foreign language teaching and learning, but the teaching and learning environment in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region is not completely appropriate for applying this programme; so the schools and classrooms must be well-prepared and equipped with the teaching aids and teaching environments which are necessary for applying it. Besides, more teacher training courses must be administered to familiarize the teachers with this programme and the techniques of teaching it. </p>

<p><italic>Keywords:  </italic> Programme assessment, Teaching environment, EFL, Applicability, Syllabus design.</p>
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