Bilingualism and attitudes towards foreign language learning

The aim of this study is to find out the significant differences between the attitudes of the monolingual and bilingual students who are learning English as a Foreign Language. For this reason, the Language Attitude Questionnaire which was developed by Cook and composed of six clusters of social, psychological and personal monolingualism and social, psychological and personal bilingualism was applied to them.The participants of the study were selected from the Preparatory School of Çağ University students who are studying English. Only eighty students were selected for the study and forty of those eighty students are bilinguals and the other forty of them are monolinguals.In Chapter One, the statement of the problem, background to the study, research questions, hypotheses, operational definitions and limitations are presented. The related literature on monolingualism, bilingualism, multilingualism and attitudes towards foreign language learning is reviewed in Chapter Two. In Chapter Three, the research design, participants, data collection and data analysis are provided. The data analysis and further comments on the collected and analysed data are included in Chapter Four. Conclusion takes place in Chapter Five.