Students’ Attitudes towards their EFL Lessons and Teachers: Their Retrospective Study

Abstract

The article investigates attitudes towards English as a foreign language (EFL) by focusing on retrospective accounts of higher-education students’ experience with learning English. The first part looks at individual factors affecting foreign language (FL) learning, such as attitudes towards FL learning and FL anxiety. The second part presents the results of a study conducted among students of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Primorska. The main aim of the study was to identify students’ attitudes towards their past EFL lessons and teachers and students’ FL anxiety level. The results show that anxiety is a serious problem and that students exhibit alarmingly negative attitudes towards EFL lessons and teachers.

Keywords

• learning anxiety
• foreign language anxiety
• attitudes towards foreign language instruction
• attitudes towards EFL teachers
• English language