ATTITUDES QUESTIONNAIRE
What ´s your opinion
about what other students think about learning English? Do you agree or disagree?
| I agree | I disagree | neither agree nor disagree | |
| 1."I love English. You can talk to foreign people or chat up on the net.One day I would like to study it abroad" | |||
| 2."I don´t like English very much.I study it because I have to". | |||
| 3."I like English, but I don´t like studying grammar or doing too much homework". | |||
| 4."I like English but I´m not very good at it.I don´t usually get good marks" | |||
| 5."I don´t want to learn English.What do I want to it for?I hate it" | |||
| 6."I think that learning English can be funny and interesting. I enjoy it" | |||
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7."English is O.K. Nowadays , it is very useful.If you can speak English you have more opportunities to get a job". |
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| 8."English is very difficult.I´m very bad at it, I´ve never passed an exam". |
Some ideas to work on attitudes:
- Exercises to show them how much English there is around them (
English bands and singers they like, instructions, labels, names of
shops,English words ..)
- Teach them strategies.Many students don´t know how to study English. If they can see that they are doing it right, their opinion about English is not so horrible!
- Focus attention on what it is well done, there is always something we can praise and they will have the feeling that they are not so bad at English after all.
-When they make posters, workprojects..show them to the other students.They can be displayed in the class, in a corridor..or if you have your own school