Language Attitudes and Motivations: towards learning English in A Coruña

Abstract

[Abstract] The following pages of this paper will reflect upon the concepts of attitudes and motivations and on a study carried out in the city of A Coruña which focused on adults learning English in a small language academies. It is divided in four main parts: an introduction, the part of attitudes and motivations, a study on language attitudes and motivations towards learning English in A Coruña, and a conclusion. The main objective of this paper is to understand what motivates these adults to learn English and what are their attitudes towards the language. As a main hypothesis it was established that adults over 18 have economic motivations to learn English. To acquire the necessary data questionnaires were distributed around language schools in A Coruña, reaching a total of 107 English learners. In the result the main hypothesis is proven to be correct.