Mohamad Reza Ahani, Dr. Masoume Shakibafar & Dr. Ardeshir Danesh
Department of English Language Teaching, Boroujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
This study examined the Iranian university students’ attitudes towards learning English as foreign language. The relationship between the learners’ gender and field of study with their attitudes was investigated. 130 university students studying: Nursing, Engineering, and Psychology received a questionnaire as a measuring instrument. A 45-item questionnaire adapted from “The Beliefs about Language Learning Questionnaire” Boonrangsri (2004) and “Attitude and Motivation Test Battery (AMTB)” designed by Gardner (1985) were employed as measuring instruments. The participants were adopted to answer all the 45 items in 30 minutes. The items were put in a 5-point Likert scale. The participants were selected using availability non-random sampling technique. The results showed that the overall mean score of English language attitude among the participants was 3.58 and standard deviation was 0.56. The independent samples t-test was carried out to explore the differences in the participants’ attitude towards English language learning across gender. The results of ANOVA test showed that there was no significant difference between male and female university students in this regard. But there was a significant difference attitude toward learn English across majors, regard this; mechanic students had higher attitude rather than Nursing and Psychology students.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Second International Conference on Current Issues of Languages, Dialects and Linguistics (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2018, Ahwaz.
