Teachers’ and Learners’ Attitudes Towards Dialectal Arabic Use in an ESP Context : Case Study of Radiography Students at INFSSF Tlemcen

Abstract

Recently, the study of attitudes about the use of learners’ mother tongue during the learning and teaching of foreign languages in general, and the learning of "English for special purposes" in particular, has occupied a prominent place among researchers in the field of language studies. From this context, this study was conducted to discover the attitude of the second year students of radiography and the professor assigned to teach them English for medical purposes about the use of the mother tongue( Dialect) in the English language class for medical purposes and noting their linguistic behavior indicates that the attitude of most students is positive, as using their mother tongue in the aforementioned field helps them to understand the content of the lesson and also enables them to maintain the continuity of discussion and conversation, and this use also enables them to cover their English language shortcomings. As for the teacher’s attitude, it was negative It was built on the premise that the use of the mother tongue is not effective in a way that has negative effects on the students' linguistic abilities in the fields of study and work as radiographers. By taking into account the teacher's attitude, limiting the random use of the learners’ mother tongue during the ESP sessions can be done through several methods, including: pre-preparation of lessons by the students, the use of audio-visual aids by their ESP teacher.