Attitudes and Motivation versus Language Achievement in Cross-Linguistic Settings. What Is Cause and What Effect?

Autor/in	Huguet, Angel
Titel	Attitudes and Motivation versus Language Achievement in Cross-Linguistic Settings. What Is Cause and What Effect?
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 27 (2006) 5, S.413-429 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
Schlagwörter	Language Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Bilingualism; Language Proficiency; Spanish; Questionnaires; Bilingual Education; Learning Motivation; Multilingualism; Secondary School Students; Second Language Learning; Academic Achievement; Student Attitudes; Language Minorities; Romance Languages; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverhalten; Ausland; Bilingualismus; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Spanisch; Fragebogen; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Motivation for studies; Lernmotivation; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Sekundarschüler; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schulleistung; Schülerverhalten; Sprachminderheit; Romanische Sprache; Spanien
Abstract	In the bilingual contexts of two regions of Spain, Asturias (Asturian/Spanish) and Eastern Aragon (Catalan/Spanish), and given the relationship between language attitudes and linguistic proficiency, our study has two objectives. Firstly, the attitudes to the two contact languages are described. Secondly, the variables that can explain such attitudes are studied. A questionnaire that had been successfully implemented in other areas was adapted and applied to a sample of 231 pupils in Asturias and 163 pupils in Eastern Aragon, all in their second year of secondary schooling (aged 13-14). In each case, the results showed globally favourable attitudes to both languages in contact, although these are determined by (1) a significant influence derived from attending Asturian lessons in Asturias or Catalan classes in Eastern Aragon and (2) the subjects' home language. (Contains 5 tables and 4 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10