Exploring students’ attitudes towards learning English as a foreign language A semi-structured research interviewing with third year LMD students at Saida University

Abstract

This paper aims at exploring the EFL university students’ attitudes towards learning English. To this effect a qualitative method based on a semi-structured interview questions is applied where the sample used consists of six pundits ; 3males and 3females EFL students. The result shows that participants believe on the integrative and instrumental orientations as the most influential reasons for which they learn English, and that educational factors (teachers/lessons/curriculum) influence the students’ attitudes to learn English in Saida University either negatively or positively.

Keywords

• Attitudes
• integrative orientation
• instrumental orientation