Language Attitudes and Learning

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to get a better insight into what relationship exists between motivation and language attitudes of students attending English and French for specific purposes and the learning process they are exposed to. Twenty students were administered questionnaires to carry out this investigation. The interest of the study lies in students’ attitudes towards English and French in parallel with the factors/criteria along which they express their language attitudes. Students’ learning experiences and strategies are considered efficient and useful in order to acquire a foreign language. Results suggest that students’ attitudes are determined by their own experiences of language use, and in this sense, we can differentiate between a language for identification – built upon specific emotional, affective, and cognitive factors – and language for communication)