Özet:

The purpose of this study is to reveal the language learning profiles of the students learning French as a second foreign language (L3), and to investigate the relationship between this profile and such variables as grade, gender, the high school they graduated from, the level of English as the first foreign language (L2). The 160 students attending in the French Teaching Division of Gazi Faculty of Education of Gazi University participated in the research. As the data collection tool the Foreign Language Learning Scale developed by the researcher was used. The findings re- vealed that the students taking part in the research showed a profile of a language learner who adopts an effective attitude towards the target language, considers it as a system to discover, sees it as a tool for communication, takes the emotional dimen- sion into consideration and makes performance evaluation while learning a foreign language.

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