Investigating female rural students' attitudes towards learning English is a substantial need to identify EFL learners … studies have been conducted to determine the correlation between learners' background and their language learning attitudes … negative attitude towards learning English and to specify the variables that shaped their attitudes. Participants were randomly …

The herding of expert opinions is often rationalized as the outcome of social learning. However, experts are typically … individuals with career concerns. As a result, herding can also arise from the fear of opposing consensus opinion and the … potential career consequences of being wrong. We empirically test for social learning and career concerns using novel data on …