TY - BOOK AU - Haidar,Rana Farid TI - Attitudes of Lebanese secondary students to modern standard Arabic PY - 2007/// CY - Beirut PB - American University of Beirut - Faculty of Arts and Sciences - Department of English KW - Cycle Secondaire L’enseignement de la langue Arabe KW - Les Attitudes et conceptions des étudiants KW - Secondary Education Arabic Language education KW - Students Attitudes and Conceptions KW - المرحلة الثانوية تعليم اللغة العربية KW - مواقف الطلبة وتصوراتهم N1 - النوع : Mémoire N2 - The purpose of the study was to examine the attitudes of Lebanese secondary scho ol students towards MSA, to examine the participants' attitudes towards Arab nat ional identity and culture, to find out whether there is a statistically signifi cant relationship between attitudes to MSA and attitudes to Arab National Identi ty and Culture, and to see whether there is a statistically significant relation ship between attitudes to MSA and the variables age, grade, gender, and school The research questions were investigated using an attitudes questionnaire which was administered to 427 participants in grades 10, 11 and 12 at three different schools in West Beirut. Findings suggest that the participants harbor positive i ntegrative orientations towards MSA and very positive attitudes towards Arab nat ional identity and culture, while they have weak instrumental orientations to MS A and negative perception of the status of MSA in the Lebanese society. Recommendations were made in light of the results UR - http://library.aub.edu.lb/search~S1?/X%28education+and+department%29&Da=1999&Db=2016&SORT=D&m=y&m=z/X%28education+and+department%29&Da=1999&Db=2016&SORT=D&m=y&m=z&SUBKEY=%28education+and+department%29/151%2C316%2C316%2CB/frameset&FF=X%28education+and+depa ER -