A Comparison of Student Attitudes towards Languages Other than English (LOTEs) in Turkey and in the USA

Autor/inn/en	Akkus Çakir, Nur; Ünlü, Nihan Aylin
Titel	A Comparison of Student Attitudes towards Languages Other than English (LOTEs) in Turkey and in the USA
Quelle	In: International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 6 (2019) 1, S.170-188 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2148-225X
Schlagwörter	Language Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Teacher Attitudes; College Students; Student Role; Teacher Role; Self Efficacy; Anxiety; Student Interests; French; Spanish; Italian; Second Language Learning; Classroom Environment; Educational Resources; Positive Attitudes; English (Second Language); Learning Motivation; Language Teachers; Private Colleges; Public Colleges; Turkey; Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverhalten; Ausland; Lehrerverhalten; Collegestudent; Lehrerrolle; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Angst; Studieninteresse; Französisch; Spanisch; Italienisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Bildungsmittel; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Privathochschule; Türkei
Abstract	The study aimed at investigating learners' attitudes towards languages other than English (LOTEs). The study also explored participant instructors' views on students' attitudes towards LOTEs. In order to collect data, a language attitude questionnaire was designed by adapting Students' Attitude Toward Foreign Language (SAFL) instrument. The study sampled a total of 316 students, 261 from Turkey, 55 from the USA. University students enrolled in a second language course in the USA and Turkey were compared in terms of their responses to SAFL items as well as their attitude scores for each of the 4 dimensions. Separate confirmatory factor analyses were conducted for each sample with 4 varimax rotated, orthogonal factors. Factor scores for each individual were computed based on the weights identified by the factor analysis to obtain general measures of motivation, students' effort and instructor's role, self-confidence and self-interest, and students' anxiety. According to the research findings students learning LOTEs have favorable attitudes towards the language they are learning both in Turkey and the USA due to their interests in the cultural products of the countries speaking those languages and increasing educational opportunities. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01