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The Case Study of Turkish Students in Elementary and Secondary Schools and Their Parents 1 Background Attitude is a point of view about other people objects or concepts There are some factors which affect the attitude of people Parents social environment and upbringing influence children's attitudes Similarly there are many factors that have an effect on language attitude Positive and negative attitudes are possible Ryan explains language attitudes as any affective cognitive or behavioural index of evaluative reactions toward different language varieties or speakers Ryan 1982 Attitude also plays a very important role in language learning The social environment of individuals includes their parents According to Gardner 1985 one of factors in second language L2 development for young children is parents beliefs or attitudes toward language learning There are numerous studies made about the language attitude One of them has been studied by Rula Jamil Yazigy The research aims at investigating some social and psychological factors in the learning of English as a foreign language in two universities in Lebanon In this work some of the factors are studied These factors are students educational and social background parental influence attitudes towards foreign languages in general and English in particular attitudes towards English speaking people effect of first language attitudes towards the English language course and the English course teacher attitudes towards self and native people and the effect of the political situation
