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Attitudes Toward Startups Among Students Of Foreign Languages At Relizane University-ahmed Zabana

Auteurs : Chetouane Abdelkader .

Résumé

Recent Algerian Higher education policies emphasise enterpreneurial endeavours across all disciplines, yet the faculties of humanity remain on the margins of startup research. This study examines startup attitudes across five academic levels (L1–M2) at the department of Foreign Languages, University of Relizane - Ahmed Zabana, using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design combining a 33 item Likert questionnaire with open-ended responses (N = 208). Three research questions guided the inquiry: how attitudes vary by academic level, which barriers students perceive as most constraining, and how entrepreneurship education and the university incubator shape students’ attitudes toward startup. Results show that startup attitudes are significantly higher at later academic levels, with a notable increase at third year license level, where the Entrepreneurship module is first introduced. Financial constraints are the most consistently endorsed barrier across levels, while language skills are widely perceived as valuable entrepreneurial assets. Incubator engagement is positively associated with entrepreneurial intentions. Nonetheless, a substantial proportion of students reported no prior awareness of the incubator’s existence, pointing to a potential institutional communication gap between the incubator and foreign language departments.

Mots clés

startup attitudes ; entrepreneurship education ; foreign languages ; university incubator ; perceived barriers