Students' learning attitudes have been widely believed to be able to affect their learning outcomes. The paper examinesVietnamese students’ attitudes towards learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP) at the tertiary level. It also considersfactorsinfluencingtheir attitudes towards learning ESP. A questionnaireof50itemswas utilized to collect data from 251 non-English majored students. The results revealed that the participants had favorableattitudes towards learning ESPin general and even towards factors in the ESP learning process such as teachers, classroom environment, course books and tests. Moreover, the findingsindicatedteachers had the most influential effect on the students’ attitudes to ESP learning, while tests had the least influential one. Some pedagogical implications can be drawn from the research results for the improvement of students’ learning attitudes and ESP learningoutcomes.
Tạp chí khoa học Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
Lầu 4, Nhà Điều Hành, Khu II, đường 3/2, P. Xuân Khánh, Q. Ninh Kiều, TP. Cần Thơ
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