Attitudes towards learning English and English language

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of the students towards learning English. This research was conducted at Niğde University. A questionnaire consisting of four parts for the students was used as the data collecting instruments for the research. The first part of the questionnaire indicates attitudes toward learning English. The second part describes attitudes and feelings when using English. The third part explains participants' attitudes to people who are native speakers of English and carrying their culture. The last part endeavors to explain family and social encouragement learn English. 222 engineering students? questionnaires were taken into evaluation. The significance of differences between means was analyzed using function analysis tests and the data related to the opinions of the students were analyzed by utilizing frequency distribution on percentages. The validity was assured by means of factor analysis procedure. All of these statistical procedures were carried out using SPSS v20.0 software in windows for IBM platform. Key Words: Social Attitudes, University, English Learning as a Foreign Language