Exploring Students' Awareness towards the Importance of Learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL)

Abstract

The present study attempts to explore learners' awareness towards the importance of learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Learners' consciousness is considered the state of being aware of language learning knowledge, especially in EFL context; the research also investigates learners' attitude, which is a key aspect in learning EFL successfully whether emotionally, behaviorally, or cognitively. Besides, the work aims to extract the advantages behind learning EFL, and tackles the most challenging tasks for language learners that are naturally extracted from real life situations. The research methodology adopted in this research is descriptive approach that relies on quantitative tool. The obtained data were collected through questionnaires, administrated to teachers of written expression and Master One students at the department of English, University of 8 Mai 1945, Guelma. The target behind this study is to raise students' awareness, and to be interested of its importance, which confirms the hypothesis conceived at the beginning of the research. On this basis, the result revealed that teachers and students agreed on raising awareness towards learning English.