Teoria de la Educacion
Volume 29, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 127-144

Sociolinguistic and cultural components in the educative process of immigrant students [Componentes sociolingüísticos y culturales en el proceso educativo del alumnado inmigrante] (Article) (Open Access)

Martín-Pastor E. , Jenaro Río C. , González-Gil F.
  • a Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Educación, Departamento de Didáctica, Organización y Métodos de Investigación, C/ Paseo de Canalejas, 169, Salamanca, 37008, Spain
  • b Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Psicología, Departamento de Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamientos Psicológicos, Avda. Merced, 109-131, Salamanca, 37005, Spain
  • c Universidad de Salamanca, Facultad de Educación, Departamento de Didáctica, Organización y Métodos de Investigación, C/ Paseo de Canalejas, 169, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

Abstract

In the Spanish educational system, immigrant students are one of the principal groups with high rates of school failure. In this situation we assume that part of the difficulties of these students can be explained by their ignorance of cultural codes and the communication mediators in which the school is organized which can impede their access to the curricula, their communication, their participation and their social and educative inclusion. Our study aims to identify similarities and differences in the understanding of sociolinguistic and sociocultural components among immigrant students whose mother tongue is Spanish compared to their peers of compulsory secondary education. To test this, a sample of 247 students from Salamanca was selected. Of these 141 students were immigrants. The results show that immigrant students who speak Spanish have more difficulties inferring the meaning of the vocabulary and the expressions that appear in their teaching resources. This leads us to think about the educational practices that we are developing in order to respond the needs of those students. © 2017 Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca.

Author Keywords

Intercultural education Immigrant students School failure Cultural social and linguistic diversity

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85049179857&doi=10.14201%2fteoredu292127144&partnerID=40&md5=2ee4604d0ffbff476453f8f490762cc1
DOI: 10.14201/teoredu292127144
ISSN: 11303743
Cited by: 1
Original Language: Spanish