ATTITUDES TOWARDS TEACHING AND LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

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Attitude is very important in learning foreign languages. A positive attitude helps learners to become more interested in learning a foreign language and to help them succeed in their studies. The purposes of the study were to investigate problems and obstacles of teaching and learning foreign languages and to study the level of the students' attitudes towards teaching and learning foreign lan-guages. The samples were 194 students selected by the purposive sampling technique. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The study revealed that problems and obstacles of teaching and learn-ing foreign languages were at low levels, namely, media and equipment, meas-urement and evaluation, teaching activities, instructors, and lesson content. Most of the instructors focused on speaking activities. Students’ attitudes towards in-structors were at the highest level. While media and equipment, lesson content, and measurement and evaluation were at high levels. Creating a good learning environment and managing productive teaching and learning can encourage stu-dents’ good attitudes and effective participation in learning a foreign language.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Attitude
• teaching
• learning
• foreign language
• student
• Attitude, teaching, learning, foreign language, student

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