Investigating Rural Junior High School Students Beliefs in English Language Learning

This research was aimed at finding out students’ beliefs about English learning in remote junior high schools in Teunom district of Aceh Jaya regency by using Horwitz’s Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory questionnaire. As the population, three remote junior high schools were involved that consisted of twelve classes. the samples of this research are students of twelve classes of the three schools. 136 students. The collected data were analyzed through a quantitative procedure by using a statistical formula to find the percentage of each statement. The results show that the students endorsed variety of beliefs about English learning. The most common beliefs held by students was motivation and expectation (72,35%) followed by beliefs about the nature of language learning (65.15%), beliefs about learning and communication strategies (60.88%), beliefs about foreign language aptitude (43.53%), and beliefs about the difficulty of language learning beliefs (37.35%).