The Objective of the Study

people and events, and their characteristic relationships”. 3 While according to Richardson beliefs can be defined as “psychologically held understandings, premises, or propositions about the world that are felt to be true”. 4 In another word, beliefs are something that you cannot see or touch but it is something in your mind that you feel true. Belief also means as the root of our thought. It influenced the way we think. In addition, Woods wrote in Thu’s journal that “Beliefs refer to an acceptance of a proposition for which there is no conventional knowledge, one that is not demonstrable, and for which there is accepted disagreement”. 5 Beliefs are powerful and they can greatly influence human behaviours. In language learning, beliefs define as previous experiences as language learners as well as cultural background are both likely to influence and shape learners’ beliefs about foreign or second language learning. 6 So, the background culture of the learners and their experiences or their background knowledge is possible to be one of the factors that can build learners’ beliefs. Beliefs also can be far more influential than knowledge in determining how individuals organize and define tasks and problems.

2. Teachers and Students Beliefs

If beliefs have indeed that much power, they must be seriously studied in language learning and teaching as they may be factors that can have tremendous effects on the process of learning and teaching. In language learning and teaching, the role of learner s’ and teachers’ beliefs about language learning has generally been researched due to its influential nature. 3 Ruben Hermans, Johanvan Braak, and Hilde Van Keer, “Development of the Beliefs about Primary Education Scale: Distinguishing a Developmental and Transmissive Dimension ”, in Helenrose Fives and Michele Gregoire Gill ed, International Handbook of Research on Teachers’ Beliefs, New York: Routledge, 2015, p.1. 4 Virginia Richardson, “Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs”, in James Raths and Amy Raths McAninch ed, Teacher Beliefs and Classroom Performance: The Impact of Teacher Education, Greenwich: Information Age Publishing, 2003, p.2. 5 Tran-Hoang-Thu, Teachers’ Perceptions about Grammar Teaching, Alliant International University, 2009, 6 Mustafa Zülküf Altan, Pre- service EFL Teachers’ Beliefs about Foreign Language Learning, European Journal of Teacher Education. 2012. p.481