International Arab Students Attitude towards Learning English (original) (raw)
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2019
Attitude is an important thing for a human being who always needs other people in their life. It can be used to understand someone’s feeling and someone’s personality. Attitudes can be viewed as a tendency to respond positively or negatively towards a certain thing, idea, person, situation, etc. This research discussed the undergraduate students of the Arabic Education Department’s attitudes toward English and the influence of the Arabic Education Department students’ attitudes toward English on their English competence. This research was a quantitative research type, which specified in regression. The population in this research was the PBA 3C students of UIN Walisongo Semarang. The total populations of the study were 41 students. The data was collected through questionnaire and documentation score of English Final Examination. In this research, the calculating data of students’ attitudes toward English that the mean was 92,97 located in interval 87 – 98. While the mean of students...
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The language attitude of Islamic boarding school students toward English
Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2020
Language attitude study has proven to reveal students' success and failure in learning language. Attitude is not innate, but learned. Students learn to grow and improve their positive language attitudes towards foreign languages through certain programs at schools. The aim of this research is to investigate the language attitude of students in an Indonesian Islamic boarding school towards English as a foreign Language and to describe why they have the attitude. The respondents were 49 students of 2 nd grade of senior high school classes from HAC (High-Achieving Class) and LAC (Low-Achieving Class). The design of this research was mixed method using explanatory sequential design. To obtain the data, the instrument used was a questionnaire consisting of cognitive, affective and conative components of language attitudes. Interview was carried out to acquire the reason the students had the attitudes. The finding was both HAC and LAC students' language attitudes were mostly positive (91.83%) in cognitive, affective and conative language attitudes. Some (8.17%) had different language attitudes. They showed positive language attitudes, but acquired low scores and showed negative language attitudes, but acquired high scores. The interview revealed this phenomenon.
Attitude towards Learning English: The Case of the UAE Technological High School
This paper outlines the results of a survey that was carried out, to identify Applied Technology High School students' attitudes towards learning the English language and to investigate whether the students' attitude is affected by the teacher's nativity. The study sample consisted of 196 students at the Applied Technology High School (ATHS). A questionnaire was used for data collection. The findings showed that the vast majority of the subjects of the study had positive attitudes towards learning the English Language. In addition, the findings revealed that teacher's nativity (native speaker vs non native speaker of English) did not influence students' positive orientation toward the English language. Finally, some pedagogical implications that would help tap the students' attitudes were presented.
what are the aspects affecting the usage of English language: Students Perspective in Saudi Arabia
The widespread use of the English language and the globalization of the worldhave made it mandatory for the English learners' to be more efficient in oral communication. Speaking is one of the most important skills to be developed and enhanced as means of effective communication. Many language learners find it difficult to express themselves in spoken language. Therefore, college students are required to have high oral English competence. We find that undergraduate students are generally facing problems to use the foreign language and express their thoughts effectively and confidently. They face many psychological obstacles or cannot find the suitable words and expressions. The inaccurate articulation and inadequacyof an English learner is an indication of the problem. Therefore a need was felt to discover the reasons behind this worrying trend. Due to the scarcity of research in Al-Quwaiyiyah, Saudi Arabia, it would be a timely study to redress this issue. The present study aims to explore the speaking problems of a cross-section of undergraduate students foundation level (Prep year), Nursing and Laboratory students in Communicative English in Al-Quwaiyiyah Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Our results demonstrated that most of the students like to communicate in English and be a part of the English-only environment; however they acknowledged some key factors that prevented them from speaking English. Fundamental factors included linguistics, individual, social, psychological and institutional which were largely based upon their beliefs, assumptions, needs and desires. This paper aims at establishing the need to focus on the factors affecting on language learners' English speaking skill. It may also help teachers and educators to understand the underlying factors that compel students to speak their first languages instead of English. The study identified the main learning difficulties in English speaking as observed by the students. Finally, some suggestions expected to be significant remedies to overcome the problem based on the results of the study.
PROSPECTIVE GRADUATES' ATTITUDES TOWARDS ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING IN BAHRAIN
The undergraduate level students in the Kingdom of Bahrain have problems in the acquisition of English as a second language. Most of the Bahraini students, who have spent ample years of learning English (from junior to secondary school), fail to acquire an expected level of proficiency in English when they enroll into the University for higher education. As a result, they are not easily absorbed by the global market. Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the Bahraini students' attitude towards learning English as a foreign/second language in the university which in turn can help in devising the ways and means to bring in the necessary changes to achieve the expected level of proficiency. Material & Method: The samples consist of 50 randomly selected Kingdom University students of College of Business Administration and College of Architectural Engineering & Interior Design. The survey handout is not a questionnaire but a series of statements with a choice of fixed five different responses. It mainly consists of three parts. The first part has 12 statements based on the reasons for learning English; second part has 12 based on how the students feel about English lessons and the third part has 6 statements to analyze how the students feel about learning English. Results & Discussions: The analyses of Parts A, B & C encapsulate that the students are aware of the usefulness of English and feel that the activities they are engaged with during the English classes to be beneficial and are contented with the progress they have been making since their school is in the acquisition of the proficiency of English language. Now, the question arises whether the students are achieving the expected level of proficiency, when they enroll into the university. Thus, this study lays the scope to identify the gap between the school level curriculum and college level expected frame of reference which is to be addressed by the educationists seriously as the findings portray a positive attitude towards English learning from the prospective graduators.
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Global regional review, 2018
This comparative study investigates the learners' attitudes towards learning English from two comparative education systems (private and public sector) of Pakistan. This study is an attempt to measure the cognitive, emotional and behavioral attitudes of these young learners towards English. The research methodology is quantitative in nature. The tool used for data analysis by the researchers is questionnaire. Steal's (2004) questionnaire has been used to measure the attitude of the learners towards English language. The data has been collected from 100 students of four different schools including two private and two public schools in Gujranwala district. The quantitative analysis of the data is executed by SPSS and the findings reveal that the students of private schools show positive attitude towards English language as compared to the public schools' students. The researchers also suggest a large-scale study from various parts of the country with larger population to know the reason behind the positive or negative attitude of students.
The Iranian EFL Journal, 2012
In the 20th and 21st centuries English has become an indispensable part of educational curriculum in Iranian schools. Despite all the efforts and investments devoted to cultivate and popularize English among Iranian language learners, the resultant outcome could not live up to the authorities’ expectations. A great body of research has proved that learners’ attitude towards foreign language learning and success in learning a foreign language are highly related. This study is to investigate Iranian junior high school students’ overall attitude towards learning English as a foreign language. As well as, the possible difference that exists between boys’ and girls’ attitude towards learning English as a foreign language. The findings indicate that Iranian junior high school students generally have a positive view of using and learning English. It was also observed that there is no significant difference between female and male learners’ attitudes, although that of the girls was slightly more positive.
Jurnal Pendidikan Indonesia Gemilang Vol.4, No.2, 2024, pp. 135-149 , 2024
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