Un estudio de las actitudes lingüísticas en los escolares del principado de andorra
- Díaz-Torrent, Txema
- Huguet, Ángel
- Lanos, Adelina
- Janés, Judit
ISSN: 0214-9877
Ano de publicación: 2014
Título do exemplar: CONVIVIR Y CONDUCTA
Volume: 7
Número: 1
Páxinas: 343-352
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology: INFAD. Revista de Psicología
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Resumo
From the direct relationship between language attitudes and language competences emerges the necessity of a good knowledge of the former if the long term aim is to improve the latter. This generally valid assertion seems even more obvious in the context of the European microstates, as they are more sensitive to the dynamics of a significantly reduced population. Such is the case of Andorra, characterized by a multilingual sociolinguistic context and an education design in accordance with that sociolinguistic profile. This study presents a quantitative analysis of the data collected through a questionnaire of language use and language attitudes conducted on 208 students (15-16 years old) in the 4th grade of Compulsory Secondary Education of the Escola Andorrana, Andorra’s public education system. The languages ??thoroughly analyzed in the questionnaire are Catalan (the official language), Castilian, French, English, Portuguese, and the mother tongues of the immigrant groups. The results obtained so far show clearly favorable attitudes of the students toward Catalan and English, results that are somewhat predictable in both cases, given the official status of the first one and the international importance of the second one. The generalized neutral attitudes toward French were surprising, as it is the language of instruction throughout the Primary and Secondary Education of Escola Andorrana. Finally, it must be stated that Portuguese, along with other languages present ??in the country received the least favorable evaluations.
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