A Study of the Impact of the Linguistic Course on Students’ Perceptions of Langage Ideology

Abstract

The present study attempted to investigate the extent to which the liguistic course offered by the University curriculum currently in use has contributed to changing learners’ perceptions towards both the local and target languages and cultures. In order to achieve the aims of the present research, a questionnaire is designed and administered to a crosssectional sample of students at the department of English at M.S.Benyahia university consisting mainly of a group of thirty, first year licence students and a group of thirty third licence students. The choice of a cross-sectional sample aimed at simulating a longitudinal study of the evolution of students ‘views about the topic under study as a result of the influence of the linguistics course .The results obtained indicated that there were marked differences between first and third year students’ views concerning local and target languages and cultures. These results ,thus, indicate that the linguistic course was effective in changing the learners’ views about the topic under study