ATTITUDES AND ATTAINED PROFICIENCY IN EFL: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF ADULT JAPANESE SPEAKERS

Measures intended to assess attitudes of Japanese students of EFL toward themselves, toward other Japanese, toward English speakers, toward travel to an English speaking country, and finally toward learning English, are studied in relation to attained EFL proficiency. The measures used to assess attitudes and motivations were modelled after previous questionnaires by Gardner, Lambert, Spolsky, and…