Comparative study of students’ attitude towards English in rural and urban school in Kuching / Michael Linjet

The research, Comparative Study of Students’ attitude towards English in Rural and Urban School in Kuching, has four aspects to look into : 1. The English Language. 2. English speakers. 3. The culture ofEnglish speakers. 4. The learning ofEnglish as a second language. It intended is to find out whether the overall performance between urban and rural students in the Final Year English paper Examination correlates with their attitudes
towards the four aspects mentioned above. 300 Form three students were selected from two schools in Kuching. Questionnaire was used to gather information and analysis of data was carried out by using frequency, correlation and T-test. The finding was that, there was no significance different between the attitudes of urban and rural students towards three aspects: 1. The English Language. 2. The English speakers. 3. The learning ofEnglish as a second language.