The Effects of Teaching Spoken Arabic on Students'Attitudes and Motivation in Israel

Donitsa‐Schmidt, Smadar; Inbar, Ofra; Shohamy, Elana

doi:10.1111/j.0026-7902.2004.00226.x

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“…Further evidence to support this important finding can be found in eight studies conducted in different parts of the world. (Chambers, 1998(Chambers, , 1999Clément et al 1994;Donitsa-Schmidt et al 2004;Inbar et al 1999Inbar et al , 2001Nikolov, 1999, Ozek & Williams 1999). These scholars have been cited in the introduction.…”

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The Motivation of L2 Learners: Does it decrease with age?

Ghenghesh¹

2010

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This study investigated the motivation of a heterogeneous group of students studying English as a foreign language at the International School in Tripoli area. The aim of the study was to find out the extent to which various factors affect students' motivation and achievement in second/foreign language learning particularly as they enter the senior high school. The research also looked into the temporal dimension of L2 motivation to see if the students' motivation changes as they enter the senior high school. One hundred and forty four students from thirty five nationalities learning English and five teachers participated in the completion of the questionnaire surveys. Twenty students and three teachers took part in the semi-structured interviews. Data were drawn from students' examination results and a combined quantitative-qualitative approach in which student and teacher questionnaire surveys were followed by a round of student and teacher interviews. The results of the 'Student's Motivation Questionnaire' show that L2 motivation in the sample decreases with age: The results of one-way analyses of variance across the five age groups investigated show that the older learners tend to score significantly lower on the motivational scales and the interviews data gives further support to this finding. There are a number of influential factors that affect learners' motivation: in particular the role of the teacher was seen fundamental in determining the attitude to the language and in supplying motivation. Other external factors include aspects related to the learning context.

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The Motivation of L2 Learners: Does it decrease with age?

Ghenghesh¹

2010

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“…Donitsa-Schmidt et al (2004) maintained that different aspects of language attitudes have also been studied such as the relation between attitudes and motivation. English in Palestine is taught as a foreign language and students are instrumentally motivated.…”

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Attitudes toward English among AL-Quds Open University Students in Tulkarm Branch

Tanni

2015

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The aim of this study is to identify the attitudes toward English among AL-Quds Open University students in Tulkarm Branch, Palestine. To achieve this purpose, the researcher used a questionnaire composed of 30 items distributed to 70 male and 110 female students in four faculties: Education, Social Development, Administrative Sciences and Technology and Applied Sciences in AL-Quds Open University, Tulkarm Branch. These students are in different study levels (years). This study was conducted during the first semester of the academic year 2014-2015. The researcher used different statistical procedures which fit the collected data. The results of the study revealed that most of the students in AL-Quds Open University, Tulkarm Branch have positive attitudes towards English. Moreover, the attitude of females toward English is more positive than the attitude of males. There are significant differences in attitudes towards English among students due to academic level. There are no significant differences in attitudes toward English among students due to faculty. Based on the results, the researcher recommends the following: First, universities are requested to offer a reasonable number of English communication courses to give students a chance to practice and improve their language so as to make the language favorable for them and have a good attitude toward it. Second, teachers are required to encourage students to get engaged in co-curricular English activities in special meetings among themselves to use English in speaking and writing.Keywords: attitudes; foreign language; undergraduate students. IntroductionEnglish is an international and even it is the leading foreign language enjoying a prestigious position in many countries including Palestine. Donitsa-Schmidt et al. (2004) maintained that different aspects of language attitudes have also been studied such as the relation between attitudes and motivation. English in Palestine is taught as a foreign language and students are instrumentally motivated. Ardeo (2003) stated that learning a foreign language is a complex process which involves a large number of dependent and independent variables. Starks & Paltridge (1996: 218) believed that learning a language is closely related to the attitudes towards the languages. Mantle-Bromley (1995) argued that teachers need to acknowledge and respect students' attitudes, beliefs and expectations and help them overcome any harmful perceptions and blocks, as well as enhance students' awareness of their personal weaknesses and strengths and of their strategic knowledge).It has been identified that learner's attitudes toward a target language and its speakers as well as the use of that language play a central role in determining levels of success for the learning and acquision of that language. According to Skehan (1989), attitudes are one of the several components of affective variables of language learning. Wenden (1991) sees attitudes as including three components: First, attitudes tend to have a cognitive component....

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“…English is used as a second or foreign language in the workplace, international trade, global media, education, tourism, business, and technology.There is a great amount of research on attitudes towards different languages (Marley 2004;Balcazar, 2003;Malallah 2000), towards different varieties of English and other languages (Karstadt, 2002;Zhou 2002;Assaf 2001). Different aspects of language attitudes have also been studied such as the relation between attitudes and motivation (Donitsa-Schmidt et al 2004, Bernaus et al 2004, and the relationship between attitudes and level of achievement (Graham 2004).…”

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Learner's English Language Attitude in Madura: Raising Awareness of the Notion of Global English

Aditya¹

2017

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 9)

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-A central issue of this paper is to study the attitude of learners toward English language. It also highlights the teachers' approach and methodology in teaching English and points out that it is necessary to raise learner's awareness towards English language. This paper tries to find why so many learners do not like to study English by comparing the attitudes of the learners who like English and those who do not and by reviewing their comments in the questionnaire. This paper also studies the sociolinguistics factors that responsible for their attitude toward English language. A Likert scale questionnaire was administered to collect data from 112 the first year high school students in Bangkalan, Madura. Results show that students do not like to learn English because they think English is difficult to be mastered and they learn English just as an obligation for academic purposes. Furthermore, it is necessary to ease students' mind from making mistakes by raising their awareness that English is widely used by nonnative speakers in Asia, Europe or Africa and native English is not the only variety that is spoken in the world.

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The Effects of Teaching Spoken Arabic on Students'Attitudes and Motivation in Israel

Cited by 79 publications

References 18 publications

The Motivation of L2 Learners: Does it decrease with age?

The Motivation of L2 Learners: Does it decrease with age?

Attitudes toward English among AL-Quds Open University Students in Tulkarm Branch

Learner's English Language Attitude in Madura: Raising Awareness of the Notion of Global English

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