The utopian/dystopian view of ELT at undergraduate level: An attitudinal analysis

To measure the effect of university students’ attitude on their academic achievement, a sample of 570 students majoring in different fields in humanities in three Islamic Azad University branches in Western Mazandaran were selected from a population of about 12000 students through random cluster sampling method. The literature for this descriptive study was prepared through library study. Then a questionnaire was designed and validated by referees’ judgments with a Cronbach’s Alpha of .81. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used to report and interpret data. To display the relations between the variables, a path analysis diagram was used. The results obtained from different statistical operations using SPSS showed significant differences between the students’ attitude and some of the variables.