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.