Students' attitudes towards using different dialects of English by their instructors at Princess Alia University College

Abdullah Salamah

Abstract

The study aimed at investigating the attitudes of English major students' at Princess Alia University College towards using different dialects of English by their instructors, and also to know the effect of GPA, and year of students on their attitudes. The sample of the study consisted of (83) students from first, second, third and fourth year English major students at Princess Alia University College. Means and standard deviations and T-test were used to analyze the results. Results showed that there were statistically significant differences in the attitudes of English major students at Princess Alia University College towards using different dialects of English by their instructors, it also showed that there are statistically significant differences at (= 0.05) in students' attitudes due to GPA variable, and also there were statistically significant differences at (= 0.05) in English major students' attitudes due to year variable.