Relations of some sociocultural variables and attitudes and motivations of young Arab students learning English as a second language.
This paper examined a number of variables pertaining to the sociocultural outlooks of 412 young Arab students learning English as a foreign language and the relation of their attitudes and motivations prior to their learning of the language. Analysis indicated clearly that certain variables appeared to be correlated with their attitudes and motivations more than others. Most of the students had maids in their homes, and the presence of a maid was associated with most of the psycholinguistic variables tested. Their previous learning experience of the language was positively correlated as was their knowledge of English stories. Having some sort of English games had the highest correlations (.25 to .41). Potential pedagogical implications of these results were discussed.
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College of Higher Studies, Arabian Gulf University, P.O. Box 26771, Bahrain.
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D018912:Arabs / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude; D001445:Bahrain; D002648:Child; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014706:Verbal Learning