The influence of foreign language assistants on the teachers and students’ attitudes toward foreign language learning and teaching

In the presence of foreign language assistants in the classroom, teachers and students can adopt different behavioral patterns that can be translated into positive or negative attitudes. This research named “the influence of foreign language assistants on the teachers and students’ attitudes toward foreign language learning and teaching” points to the role played by the presence of the native assistants in the classroom and how this affects the students’ success and teachers’ learning and teaching processes. The main objective of this research is to determine how the foreign language assistance can lead to a change on the teachers and students’ attitudes towards the foreign language, for that matter, both qualitative and quantitative data collection procedures will be applied to make it more reliable and consistent. Some of the concepts studied in this research are, anxiety, social distance, motivation, risk taking and attitude concerning students and teachers respectively. This last factor is considered as relevant since it can interfere in the success or in the failure of the learning and teaching achievement as it has been defined by many authors. As a conclusion, the foreign language assistants’ good attitude fosters a positive behavior in students and teachers contributing to their learning and teaching success