THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING BELIEFS
Özet
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between university students’ epistemological and foreign language learning beliefs. In this regard, the study was conducted with the participation of 157 male and 145 female first-grade students studying at a university. The Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire (EBQ) and the Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI) were used to collect data. Frequencies, means, t-tests and Pearson correlations were used to analyse the data. The results revealed thatuniversity students had sophisticated epistemological beliefs in terms of learning depends on effortandlearning depends on ability sub-dimensions of the EBQ, while they were indecisive about one single truthsub-dimension. The study also revealed that the participants held various beliefs related to foreign language learning. There was a slight correlation between the students’ epistemological and foreign language learning beliefs. The results also showed that the female students had slightly more sophisticated epistemological beliefs compared to males regarding learning depends on abilitysub-dimension of the EBQ, while they did not differ in terms of their FLL beliefs.The Relationship between University Students’ Epistemological and Foreign Language Learning Beliefs
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Eğitim, Eğitim Araştırmaları, Dil ve Dil Bilim
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