Las actitudes lingüísticas del alumnado autóctono e inmigrante de la educación secundaria en la comunidad autónoma vasca

Abstract

Over the last years, Spain has become the biggest immigrant receiving country of the European Union. As a result, immigrants´ children have joined our schools and have put forward a set of challenges unknown until very recently. We should be aware of the importance of mastering the school language to gain good educational achievement. Moreover, it is also important to know the immigrant students ´attitudes towards these linguistic codes and the social collectives who use such languages. In this context, taking a sample of 390 local students and 180 immigrant students, our work analyses the language attitudes towards the Basque, Spanish, immigrant´s language, English and French. 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