Abstract
This paper analyzes the attitudes Saudi university students hold toward Western culture. Saudi participants completed an open-ended questionnaire about attitudes toward Western culture, consisting of five open-ended questions. This paper presents questionnaire responses from 210 university students in Saudi Arabia (male and female). This paper finds that most of these students are integratively motivated and therefore show a positive disposition toward Western culture. It also shows a correlation between instrumental motivation and students who study on science and engineering tracks. The study shows that a clear majority of students like some aspect of the West or Western culture. The study concludes that these Saudi students are predisposed to interact favorably with the West.
Citation
Hagler, A. (2014), "A study of attitudes toward Western culture among Saudi university students", Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf Perspectives, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 43-56. https://doi.org/10.18538/lthe.v11.n1.115
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2014 Anderson Hagler
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Acknowledgements
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