English learners' attitudes toward English!
When I teach freshman English Reading class at universities, I do find out students' attitudes are quite negative toward English. I remembered the previous year when I taught lower level students at a university. I asked students how much they enjoyed learning English. The students' answers were quite disappointing. Students told me that they hated English a lot. Like usual, I had a big class around 65 students. Many students attended the class simply because it was compulsory. Few students really liked or were motivated to learn English reading. In order to know their attitudes toward English, I asked them on my very first class to tell me how much they hate or like English. I would draw a graph from 0 to 100, every ten is an interval, to see if they like or dislike English. O means they like English very much; 100 means they hate English the most. The survey results showed that almost 2/5 of my students hate English a lot. 1/3 of the students say they don'...