Students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB) represent a growing group of learners in the tertiary education sector of New Zealand. However not much is known about their attitudes and expectations in regard to the learning process in general and online learning, in particular. Introduction of a new online learning management system (LMS) at Victoria University of Wellington provided an opportunity to survey NESB students and compare their attitudes towards different facilities offered by the new LMS and to online learning in general with those of the native speaker (NS) students.

Keywords: online learning, NESB students, attitudes, perceptions