AN INVESETIGATION INTO THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN LANGUAGE ATTITUDES AND LANGUAGE PERFORMANCES OF THE STUDENTS AT THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDIES, DANANG UNIVERSITY

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English has become an international language, playing a more and more important role in not only science but also social aspects of Vietnam.This study analyzes attitudes toward English of the students at the University of Foreign Language Studies, Danang University based on questionnaire results, and compares the relationships between language attitudes and language performances drawn from students’ grades. Students’ attitudes toward English in general and English as a subject at school were obtained in the form of a questionnaire. Also, transcripts of students are employed to analyze their performances. Generally, students at the English Department at the University of Foreign Language Studies, Danang University hold high attitudes towards English. In addition to that, language attitudes go proportionally with linguistic performance, which means that the more positive the attitudes become, the better the performances are.