Abstract:

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between students’ attitudes towards foreign language and foreign language achievement. The participants are last-year-students in the high schools in Afşin and Elbistan, K.Maraş. The reason why we chose the last-year high school students was to identify their attitudes towards language at the beginning of their career through the university. Language Attitude Scale (LAS) -Likert Type scale in five degrees- was administered to all students to see if there was any relationship between their attitude and success. The attitude scale was developed by Saracaloğlu (1992), (_= 0.96). 421 students' responses were studied. of 0.96. ANOVA, t, Scheffe and Tukey HSD tests were used in analyzing the data. This study indicates that there is a significant relationship between student academic achievement and student attitude towards foreign language but statistically no relationship between gender and success. In the light of this study, it is possible to put forward that female students tend to have more positive attitudes than male students

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