International Science Community Association Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2277 - 2502 4 8 2015 August 2 An Evaluation of Iranian ESL Learners' Attitudes towards Social Issues in the West 37 40 EN H. Saleem 1 Department of Management Sciences, Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Islamabad, PAKISTAN Khan M.A. 2 Alireza Miremadi 1 Sharif University of Technology, International Campus, IRAN EtemadolesllamiBakhtiyari Ali 2 Arash Dorvash 3 Mohammad Aghania 1 Department of management Limkokwing University, Limkokwing Cyberjaya, Malaysia Peyman Attariani 2 Babak Afshar 3 Behnaz Torabi 4 Mohammad Aghaei 1 Department of Business Management, Branch, Tarbiat Moddares University (TMU), Tehran, IRAN Abdolmaleki Sobhan 2 Institute for Management and Planning Studies, IMPS, Tehran, IRAN Amin Asadollahi 3 Department of Business Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, IRAN MahinEslami Shahrbabaki 1 Psychiatry Department, Shahid Beheshti hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Hassan Ziaaddini 2 Institue of Neuropharmachology, Psychiatry Department, Shahid Beheshti hospital, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Saeedi Hamed 3 Neurology Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Khorasani Farshid 4 Neuroscience Research Center, Institue of Neuropharmachology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, IRAN Moghaddam Pourhassan 1 Khorasgan branch, Islamic Azad University, Esfahan, IRAN Mahmud 2 LotfiAhmad Reza 3 > Research Paper 2014 1 20 2015 August 2 The present research wants to measure and evaluate Iran private English schools ESL learners' (51 elementary, 223 intermediate and 96 advanced language learners) and their teachers' (19 teachers) attitudes towards social issues such as religious and ethnic minorities, social inequality and power dominance in the West. While using a researcher-made questionnaire to collect data, a K-S test was used to test data distribution normality. As the data did not prove to be normal, a Kruskal-Wallis test was used to compare the four groups' mean ranks. The results did not show significant differences among ESL learners' and their teachers' attitudes towards social problems. However, a binomial test showed that ESL learners and their teachers have shown significantly positive attitudes towards power dominance, while at the same time, showing moderate attitudes towards religious and ethnic minorities and social inequality in the West. Copyright@ International Science Community Association