Cultura y Educacion
Volume 22, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-97

Immigrant and native secondary education students' linguistic attitudes towards the basque and Spanish languages [Actitudes lingüísticas hacia el euskera y castellano de los estudiantes autóctonos e inmigrantes de la educación secundaria obligatoria] (Article)

Rojo V.* , Madariaga J.M. , Huguet Y.A.
  • a Centro de menores Ibaiondo (Bizkaia), Spain
  • b Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
  • c Universitat de Lleida, Spain

Abstract

Over the last years, Spain has become the biggest immigrant-receiving country of the European Union. This has meant that immigrants' children have joined our schools, which has posed hitherto unknown challenges. We should be aware of the importance of mastering the school language for good educational achievement. Moreover, it is also important to know immigrant students' attitudes towards these linguistic codes and the social collectives who use such languages. In this context, with a sample of 390 native students and 180 immigrant students, our work analyses the language attitudes towards the Basque and Spanish languages. Overall, the results obtained allow us to confirm students' positive attitudes towards these languages. However, it seems that their country of origin has a strong influence on their attitudes towards these languages. The most significant variations are found in students from Latin America. &copya; 2010 Fundación Infancia y Aprendizaje, ISSN: 1135-6405.

Author Keywords

Immigrant students Latin america Language attitudes Basque language Spanish language

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77952788119&doi=10.1174%2f113564010790935231&partnerID=40&md5=478be0514d0c2654192ebbdbca0ff21b
DOI: 10.1174/113564010790935231
ISSN: 11356405
Cited by: 6
Original Language: Spanish