ATTITUDES

ATTITUDES

1. A mental and neural state of readiness.

2. Apsychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favour or disfavour.

   • possitive or negative evaluation.

3. An evaluative reaction to some referent or attitude object, inferred on the basis of the individual`s beliefsor opinions about the referent.

4. Acquired or midified by absorving or reacting to the attitudes of others

5. Behaviours

6. values

7. constituents of attittude

   • Cognitive
     • Thoughts and Belifs
   • Affective
     • Feelings and emotions
   • Conative
     • Behavioural intentions.

8. Constituent of the motivational process

9. CLASSIFICATION OF ATTITUDES IN THE CONTEXT OF MFLL

   • Target-language community
   • Learning a particular language
   • Language learning in general.
   • Instrumentality and integrative

10. Attitude determinannts.

    • Contextual
      • Personality, cognitive style, intelligence, aptitude, learners age, and ability,

11. Educational factors. connected more with the environmental variables than individual attributes

    • Teacher-related influences on attitude.
      • Important in the motivational process.
      • Influential agents.
      • Bad teaching equates with negative attitudes
    • school-related influences on attitude
      • What happens in the classroom is extremely influential.
        • Important connection between classroom reality and students motivation.
      • The cumulative effect of the aspects below are called school ethos. this can have greater impact on students than any element.
        • Choose the correct lesson activities.
          • Correct use of ICT
          • Avoid to use activities which can cause embarrasement on the students.
          • Using a text book that can engage students in the process.
          • Assessment can encourage or demotivate students to continue learning a language.
          • School exchages has beneficial impact on students
    • The Curriculum
      • Must be contextualized according to the needs of the students.