The English Learning Questionnaire used in this study was composed in Chinese. The questionnaire consisted of two parts: (1) fifteen closed-ended questions, (2) two open-ended questions. The survey was handed out at the beginning of their first class of the first semester in the academic year of 1996 to 1997. The survey was finished in class and collected immediately. The survey’s first section examined causes that may have influenced students’ English learning effect and students’ perspectives about English learning, while the second section investigated students’ feelings and past learning experiences of learning English in greater details. In the first section, the subjects were asked to rate statements, such as “Communicating with foreigners is the basic purpose of studying English” on the following Likert-type scale: (1) very agree, (2) somewhat agree (3) neutral (4) somewhat disagree (5) very disagree. Question 2 (what were your sources of fear?) and question 10 (If you are to choose the most important or favorite skill, what would be the preferred order of question 9?) were not included in this analysis, due to their different nature. To calculate the score for this section, item (1) for each question represents 1 point, item (2) represents 2 points, item (3), (4) and (5) represent 3, 4, and 5 points, respectively. This paper concentrates on the results from the first section of the survey.