Beliefs of Training School Students about the Process of Learning English
Keywords:
Creencias, proceso de aprendizaje, proceso de adquisición lenguas, Inglés,, Beliefs, Language acquisition process, education process, English LanguageAbstract
Nowadays, the process of learning English can be found at all stages of education. That is why, in this article, it has been considered appropriate to analyze the beliefs students have regarding this process. For this purpose we have counted on the collaboration of two groups of students, from the specialties of Early Education and Primary Education at Universidad de Extremadura. The choosing of this sample is not random, as these students will become teachers and educators who shall work on the English language within classrooms, enabling quality bilingual schools. All collected data has been obtained through a test grounded on Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory which is based on the Horwitz test from 1987,and was adapted by Richards and Lockhart in 1994. The goal of the test was to identify any meaningful differences among student beliefs and elaborate a descriptive and inferential analysis of their preconceptions according to sex and specialty.
