A case study: Students' attitudes towards academic English courses at faculty of education

This dissertation aimed to find out the attitudes and perceptions of students on learning a foreign language. This study is a comparative study which investigates the attitudes of three groups of students with varied competence in English. The three groups of students from three different departments (Psychological Counseling and Guidance Department, Turkish Language Education and Elementary Mathematics Education Program Department) are taken into investigation in order to reach a conclusion about the attitudes of different groups of learners towards learning a foreign language. Besides, the study also tried to examine in accordance with the attitudes of students, this study also analyzed the competency of students in second language in terms of their age, gender, department, the kind of high-school they finished, their abroad experience, and grade. The population of this study consisted of 192 students. The data of the study were collected with a personal information sheet, the Attitudes towards English Scale, In addition, the data regarding the students' attitudes demonstrated difference in Turkish Language Education (TLE) students 'attitudes Therefore, an interview was carried out among TLE students to evaluate the attitudes of TLE students towards foreign languages because individual feedback was essential.