Assessing Anbar University Undergraduates' Receptivity of Learning English as a Foreign Language in Humanitarian Specializations
Ayad Hammad Ali
Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, Anbar University
Hanaa Abass
Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts, Anbar University.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.3.2.6
Keywords: Assessment - Curriculum - Receptivity -Teaching - EFL
Abstract
This paper deals with the receptivity of EFL learners who
study English as a foreign language at the Faculty of Arts at Anbar
University in Iraq. Departments of Geography, Sociology and Arabic
were taken as samples of the study because they have been studying
English for four years. The objective of the study is to evaluate the
learners' acceptability of learning English for four years and their
opinions about the curriculum designed for eight courses. As the
study attempts to measure the validity of teaching humanitarian
departments English for four years and whether they are convinced
in this decision or not. It has been proved that the learners of the three
departments request to reduce the numbers of courses from eight to
four with the average of two years. Achieving the questionnaire
which consists of (11) questions facilitates evaluating the
