EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS THEIR LECTURERS AND ACADEMIC SELF-CONFIDENCE

This study aims at finding whether there is a meaningful relationship between undergraduate students’ attitudes towards their lecturers and academic self-confidence. Descriptive research design using quantitative research method to collect the data was adopted in this study. To collect the required data the scale of Students’ attitudes towards the teachers (SOSATT) developed by Gelisli, et al. (2017) consists of 25 items, and Academic self-concept scale developed by Liu and Wang (2005) consisted of 10 items were used. All Likert-items of the scales used a five point scale from 1 (completely disagree) to 5 (completely agree). The scales were completed by 152 undergraduate students enrolled in Foreign Languages Teaching Department at Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Kazakhstan. The results showed that the participants possess a medium level of positive attitudes towards their lecturers and high level of academic self-confidence. Moreover, the findings indicated the no difference between male and female participants’ attitudes towards their lecturers but revealed statistically significant difference on their levels of academic self-confidence. Finally, there was found high level of correlation between students’ attitudes towards their lecturers and academic self-confidence. According to the results, it may be concluded that the more positive the students attitudes towards their lectures the higher their levels of academic self-confidence in the learning environment.