Attitudes itself is divided into three factors, namely cognitive, affective, and conative (Baker, 1992). Cognitive concerns with thoughts and beliefs, while affective talks about what people like or dislike towards an attitude object. The last aspect is conative defined as a readiness for action toward language. The way how people have positive or negative attitude may …show more content…
One of the most important factors that influence in learning language is attitude which belongs to internal factor (Fakeye, 2010). Attitude is characterized by a large proportion of emotional involvement such as feelings, self, and relationships in the community (Brown, 2001). In short, attitude is how people see and perceive the world.
Attitude is also related to learners’ difficulties in learning a language. There is a relationship between attitudes and learners’ difficulties in learning a language (Rifai, 2009). She argues that if the attitudes of learners increase, the more various ways the language learners make to try to overcome the various difficulties they face. Thus, attitude is important to change the paradigm toward a language brings good or bad