This study aimed to determine the significant mediating effect of using English movies on relationship between language exposure and attitudes towards learning English. A total 240 students from 1020 were selected through stratified random sampling. The used quantitative non-experimental method research correlational technique. Mean, Pearson r, Regression Analysis, Medgraph Sobel z-test employe...

In this study, the attitudes of Turkish university students with the regard of utilizing mobile technologies were investigated in English language learning classrooms. Primarily, this is a research of the attitudes of university students who were learning the English language via mobile technologies and who were investigated by the researchers (Uzunboylu, Hürsen, Özütürk & Demirok, 2014) and th...

Ethical and moral behaviour in business and society has come into much greater prominence at the beginning of the 21 century. More specifically, the ever increasing use of information and communications technologies (ICT) has raised a wide variety of ethical issues specific to these technologies. This paper describes the development and delivery of a required Applied Ethics in ICT course in a l...

the role of motivation and attitude in l2 learning and their relationship with kinds of orientation which is specific to the social context has been a point of investigation for decades. this study was conducted to find the kinds of orientation (english learning reasons) specific to the social milieu of iran on the one hand, and their relationship with rnotivation and the english language profi...

The aim of this study was to compare attitudes towards suicide among regional politicians in five European countries, namely Austria, Hungary, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden. Attitudes of politicians are important as they are key persons in a suicide prevention context. All these countries differ significantly with respect to suicide rates and suicide prevention strategies. Previous research has ...

Using nationally representative survey data, this study explores gender-role attitudes among unmarried adolescents aged 16-19 in Egypt, a society characterized by distinct and often segregated roles for men and women. Adolescents' views about desirable qualities in a spouse as well as more direct indicators of gender-role attitudes are examined, including opinions about whether wives should def...

It is commonly hypothesized that higher cognitive abilities promote racial tolerance and a greater commitment to racial equality, but an alternative theoretical framework contends that higher cognitive abilities merely enable members of a dominant racial group to articulate a more refined legitimizing ideology for racial inequality. According to this perspective, ideological refinement occurs i...

Although English language plays an important role in the job of aviation personnel, language needs of these employees have been taken for granted. This study aimed at investigating the extent to which English is used by the employees at Iran Air airport services at Isfahan Airport, the required level of basic language skills in performing their jobs effectively, and the employees’ attitude towa...