Contribution/ Originality: Among the related studies, no one has addressed the relationship between the EFL teachers' emotional intelligence and their perceptions of learner autonomy. The findings contribute to the field of teacher education to see whether teachers with different levels of emotional intelligence have the same or different perceptions of learner autonomy. 1. INTRODUCTION Learner's autonomy has recently turned into a major area of interest in foreign language teaching. Consequently, the concept of learner's autonomy has attracted a lot of attention by different scholars in both the