Determination of secondary school students' attitudes towards learning German as a second foreign language: (Afyonkarahisar sample)

Million people around the world learn German as a foreign language and German is preferred as a second foreign language after English. Considering the political and commercial relations of our country with Germany, it is an undeniable fact that German has an undeniable importance for us and it is taught as a second foreign language in our Anatolian High Schools starting from the 9th grade. Students' attitudes towards a lesson determine their approaches, performances, interests and desires towards that lesson, and also, students' attitudes towards the lesson are of great importance in terms of the success of the curriculum and the teacher. In this context, the aim of the study is to determine the attitude of secondary school students towards learning German as a second foreign language. The universe of the study consists of all Anatolian High School students studying German as a second foreign language in the province of Afyonkarahisar in the 2019-2020 academic year. The sample of the study is 496 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th students in the 2019-2020 academic year, who are studying and taking German as their second language. In the study, it was observed that there was a significant difference in the attitudes of the students towards learning German in the sub-dimensions of the other variables except the mother education variable. According to the findings obtained as a result of the study, it was determined that the students mostly had a positive attitude towards learning German, but they were afraid of learning German.