Students’ attitudes towards vocational foreign language course.

Abstract

The aim of the study was to determine students’ attitudes towards Vocational Foreign Language Course and if the their attitudes display significant differences in terms of gender, age, department, the place they live, passing marks, the type of high school they graduated from, their mothers’ and fathers’ graduation levels and being abroad. The study was carried out in descriptive survey method. The population of the study comprised of senior students at two vocational colleges of Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University in 2015-2016 spring semester. “Attitude Scale towards Vocational Foreign Language Course” was used to collect data. Data were analyzed using independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA. The findings revealed that students, in general, have positive attitudes towards Vocational Foreign Language Course and their attitudes differed in terms of gender, age, department and passing mark; however, their attitudes did not have a difference in terms of other variables