STUDENTS’ BELIEFS IN LANGUAGE LEARNING: AREA AND GENDER VARIABLES OF STUDY

Şaziye YAMAN ¹

The purpose of this study is to report on a study that investigated the beliefs about language learning of Turkish EFL learners in Anatolian High Schools. In this study, whether there is any difference among the 12th grade Science (S), Social Sciences (SS) and Language (L) students in terms of their English learning beliefs, and whether there is any difference between two genders in terms of their English learning beliefs among these students are investigated. The population of this study is 637 12th grade S, SS and L students in Yusuf Kalkavan Anatolian High School, Mersin Ticaret Sanayi Odasy Anatolian High School and Mehmet Adnan Özçelik Anatolian High School in 2008-2009 academic year. The survey instrument that has been administered in this study is Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) which is designed by Horwitz in 1985. All data have been analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). According to the results, there is a significant difference a

Keywords
Beliefs, Language Learning, BALLI, Gender Variables, Language Learning,