Cecilio Lapresta-Rey
Biographic Data
| ID | 86001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cecilio Lapresta-Rey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cecilio |
| FAMILY NAME | Lapresta-Rey |
| SIGNATURE | LAPRESTA-REY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de Lleida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3411-7077 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
From Fluency to Employment: How State and Regional Language Skills Shape Immigrants’ Labour Market Outcomes
It has been widely demonstrated that proficiency in the host country’s language is important for the labour market integration of immigrants. However, few studies have analysed the role of immigrants’ language skills in bilingual contexts. Drawing on representative data from five Spanish autonomous communities, we investigate the differential role of fluency in Spanish—the state language—and in the regional co-official languages (Catalan, Basque,…
Crossing Cultures at School: Interethnic Contact, Perceived Threat, and Students’ Attitudes toward Cultural Diversity
This study examines how interethnic contact in schools influences native adolescents’ support for the cultural maintenance of immigrant communities. Basing our research on intergroup contact and threat theories, we use the reduction of perceived threat as a benchmark for examining both direct and indirect effects of peer contact. The study distinguishes between three immigrant groups that differ in social status and cultural distance: Latinos, Ro…
Digital socialization and linguistic vitality: How social media reconfigure the use of Catalan in the eastern strip of Aragon
This study examines how the use of social media platforms based on recommendation algorithms can reshape linguistic use patterns among adolescents living in territories marked by linguistic imbalance, such as the eastern strip of Aragon. Using a sample of 181 participants, we analyzed the use of Spanish and Catalan across key contexts of adolescent socialisation, as well as their specific digital exposure and practices. The results show that soci…
Regional, state, and immigrants’ heritage languages in high school: The effect of geographic origin and linguistic acculturation profiles on language attitudes
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions: This study explores the language attitudes that high-school students of immigrant origin hold toward Catalan, Spanish, and the heritage languages of immigrant communities, focusing on linguistic acculturation profiles at school and geographic origin of these students. It takes place in Catalonia (Spain), a multilingual setting where Spanish and Catalan have official status. Design/Methodology/Approa…
People in contact, languages in contact. A multi-group analysis of the effects of interethnic contact on acculturation attitudes
The present study aims to enhance previous knowledge on the role of interethnic contact as a tool to improve the linguistic integration of immigrants in bilingual receiving societies. We examined the effect of interethnic contact on natives’ support for immigrants’ language maintenance as well as on immigrants’ attitudes towards natives’ languages (in addition to L1 identification). The study was conducted in western Catalonia (Lleida), a region …
Does interethnic contact buffer against the socialization of anti-immigrant prejudice? A test on the impact of parents', school and contextual countrywide attitudes on young people
Social science research has shown that interethnic contact reduces prejudiced attitudes. It has been also proven to successfully intervene in several mechanisms of prejudice formation such as when feelings of threat arise. However, there are few studies that examine the potential of interethnic contact in the reduction of prejudice transmission. Using data from PISA 2018, this article examines the impact that anti-immigrant attitudes from three s…
‘They speak Arabic to make teachers angry’: High-school teachers’ (de)legitimization of heritage languages in Catalonia
This study explores high-school teachers’ discourse on heritage language use regarding their students of immigrant background in Catalonia, Spain, where both Catalan and Spanish are official languages. For this purpose, 10 high-school teachers from 5 schools with a high ratio of foreign students were interviewed. These interviews were analysed using membership categorization analysis. The results show that the perceived appropriateness of heritag…
Linguistic acculturation preferences of Catalan local students toward their peers of Moroccan descent. The determining factors of linguistic assimilationism
As a response to the migratory movements initiated at the end of the past century in Catalonia (Spain), its educational system aims to promote interculturality and multilingualism as a way to achieve social cohesion. For this purpose, it is important to improve our understanding of the linguistic acculturation preferences endorsed by local students toward students of immigrant origin – a scarcely studied factor. One of the main factors for achiev…
Exploring the relationship between cultural capital and the use of school resources for parental involvement across countries: Evidence from Pisa 2018
This study aims to explore the effect of cultural capital on the perception of parental involvement policies offered by schools in various countries. Using PISA (2018) data, a multilevel model is implemented for each participant country to adopt a comparative perspective. While the results suggest a complex effect, moderated by idiosyncratic country characteristics, the objectified component of cultural capital shows a positive trend pattern for …
Implicit language attitudes in Catalonia (Spain): Investigating preferences for Catalan or Spanish using the Implicit Association Test
In line with the increased interest in studying implicit language attitudes, this study aims to explore implicit attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish in the multicultural and multilingual context of Catalonia (Spain) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). A sample of 113 adolescents completed the IAT and a set of explicit measures of attitudinal and motivational variables. Results show a general preference for Catalan over Spanish. However, …
Predictors of school adjustment in high school students of immigrant origin in Western Catalonia
This study explores factors influencing school adjustment in immigrant students in Catalonia, Spain. Low school adjustment levels can lead to failure or dropout, particularly among immigrant students. The research analyzes acculturation strategies, intergroup contact, perceived discrimination, and origin's impact on school adjustment. Students from African, Latin American, and European backgrounds completed a questionnaire, revealing four accultu…
When immigrant and regional minority languages coexist: Linguistic authority and integration in multilingual linguistic acculturation
This study explores integration and linguistic acculturation in Catalonia (Spain), a multilingual setting where a state and a regional language coexist with those of immigration. Using qualitative content analysis, we examined the linguistic acculturation profiles of 13 high-school students of immigrant background and the linguistic acculturation expectations of 15 autochthonous students, considering Spanish, Catalan and heritage languages. Then,…
Acculturation preferences, conflict and cultural enrichment on secondary education in Western Catalonia
Purpose Located in Western Catalonia (Spain), the article’s aim is to analyse the acculturation preferences of majority group high-school students towards their peers of Moroccan and Romanian descent. Furthermore, it aims to delve deeper into the influence on the perception of conflict with these groups mediated by cultural enrichment. Design/methodology/approach The data are the result of conducting a questionnaire among 349 autochthonous studen…
Linguistic Acculturation Preferences of Autochthonous Students Toward Their Latin American Peers in Western Catalonia
Located in the province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), this study aims to identify and analyze the predictors of linguistic acculturation preferences of autochthonous high-school students toward their peers of Latin American descent. Autochthonous high-school students (N = 349) filled a questionnaire measuring linguistic acculturation and a series of linguistic and social-psychological variables (i.e. multicultural ideology, ethnic tolerance, atti…
The differentiated role of language knowledge and linguistic acculturation strategies in the configuration of occupational aspirations: The case of the descendants of migrants in Western Catalonia
One of the most influential factors in the future access to the labour market of a young descendant of migrants is their occupational aspirations. Sociodemographic, socio-cultural, and socio-professional family elements or knowledge of languages are key in their formation. But in bilingual societies like Catalonia, the symbolism associated with languages is an added complexity.Thus, this article aims to analyse the influence and predictive power …
Language attitudes towards English in local and immigrant students in Catalonia: Analysis of the joint effect of language competence and region of origin
This paper investigates the attitudes towards English of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain) by focusing on their region of origin and their language competence. The research examines the individual and the joint effect of both variables in the development of language attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to 954 students of Secondary Education. Results reveal that region of origin and language competence are influentia…
Identity and linguistic acculturation expectations. The attitudes of Western Catalan high-school students towards Moroccans and Romanians
Self-identifications of youth in Catalonia: A linguistic acculturation theory approach
Located in Catalonia (Spain), and based on the Acculturation Theory applied to the field of linguistics, the objectives of this article are: (i) to detect and study the linguistic acculturation strategies of young people; (ii) to analyse the effects of origin and linguistic acculturation profiles relating to self-identifications with Spain and Catalonia and; (iii) to explore the predictive power of these variables. The quantitative data belongs t…
Usos lingüísticos y formación en lengua y cultura de origen. ¿Una herramienta de integración socioeducativa
Unos equilibrados usos lingüísticos por parte de los descendientes de migrados son unelemento clave de cara a su integración actual y futura. En este sentido, existe una corriente teóricaque postula que un mayor grado de integración de estos jóvenes, revierte en un mayor conocimientode las lenguas, unas más favorables actitudes y unos usos más equilibrados. Este mayor grado deintegración es más fácil de alcanzar si se capitalizan las lenguas y cu…
Language attitudes towards Spanish and Catalan in autochthonous and immigrant families in Catalonia: Analysing the correlation between student attitudes and their parents’
This paper analyses the language attitudes of autochthonous and immigrant families living in Catalonia towards Spanish and Catalan. The research is intended to assess the possible differences in the language attitudes of students and their parents towards the two languages spoken in Catalonia. The investigation takes a sample of 476 students and their families from several cities in Catalonia who answered an attitude questionnaire. The data were …
The legal rights of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren: The current state of Aragonese language teaching in Aragon (Spain)
Aragon is an autonomous community within Spain where, historically, three languages are spoken: Aragonese, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish. Both Aragonese and Catalan are minority and minoritised languages within the territory, while Castilian Spanish, the majority language, enjoys total legal protection and legitimation. The fact that we live in the era of the nation-state is crucial for understanding endangered languages in their specific socio-…
Acculturation strategies and attitudes and their relationship with the identification of descendants of migrants in the Catalan school context
The mass arrival of immigrants to Catalonia (Spain) in the last two decades has led to a change in the socio-demographic composition of a society which de facto is characteristically bilingual and bicultural. The acculturation process undergone by young descendants of migrants and how they identify in this context are essential in order to overcome the social challenges arising in different societies. We have carried out a mixed study in order to…
Opening perspectives from an integrated analysis: Language attitudes, place of birth and self-identification
There is a theoretical and empirical tradition demonstrating the influence of the place of birth and self-identification in the shaping of language attitudes. But very few works analyse their joint effects. The main aim of this study is to analyse both the disaggregated and joint impact of these variables on the shaping of attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish languages in Catalonia. The sample consists of 309 adolescents (aged 14-16 years) comin…
Can language attitudes be improved? A longitudinal study of immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain)
This study explores changes in attitudes towards Catalan, Spanish, and English over a 2-year period, on the part of secondary education students of immigrant origin residing in Catalonia. It aims to provide new data by adopting a longitudinal design and by focusing on the immigrant population, which has raised new challenges for the Catalan society and education system. Data were collected from 72 secondary education students who answered a langu…
Linguistic genocide or superdiversity: New and old language diversities
Book review of Linguistic genocide or superdiversity: new and old language diversities, edited by Reetta Toivanen and Janne Saarikivi, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2016, 376 pp., ISBN 9781783096053
Identity and linguistic acculturation expectations. The attitudes of Western Catalan high-school students towards Moroccans and Romanians
Redefining cultural identity through language in young Romanian migrants in Spain
This article presents an analysis based on theories of interactionism of the Self on how young Romanian immigrants in Catalonia (Spain) redefine their cultural identity in the host country. The article also discusses how interactions with their significant others and access to different symbolic worlds through different languages condition this redefinition. The results have been obtained through the completion and analysis of 22 in-depth semi-st…
Language attitudes, family language and generational cohort in Catalonia: New contributions from a multivariate analysis
The effect of the generational cohort on language attitudes has hardly ever been studied. However, especially in the bilingual territories in Spain, the literature stresses the importance of being Spanish-speakers or non-Spanish-speakers in the construction of these attitudes. Focusing on the case of Catalonia (Spain), this paper intends to analyse the impact of the family language and the generational cohort on the language attitudes towards Cat…
Implicit language attitudes in Catalonia (Spain): Investigating preferences for Catalan or Spanish using the Implicit Association Test
In line with the increased interest in studying implicit language attitudes, this study aims to explore implicit attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish in the multicultural and multilingual context of Catalonia (Spain) using the Implicit Association Test (IAT). A sample of 113 adolescents completed the IAT and a set of explicit measures of attitudinal and motivational variables. Results show a general preference for Catalan over Spanish. However, …
Evolution and determinants of language attitudes among Catalan adolescents
Attitudinal patterns of secondary education students in Catalonia. The direct and moderator effects of origin
Language attitudes have become more relevant than ever as a result of the considerable number of immigrant students enrolled in the Catalan educational system and the challenges this entails in terms of promoting social integration and language learning. Therefore, the objective of the study is to increase our understanding of language attitudes formation by analysing how origin (autochthonous or immigrant) influences (a) the attitudes towards Ca…
Language attitudes towards English in local and immigrant students in Catalonia: Analysis of the joint effect of language competence and region of origin
This paper investigates the attitudes towards English of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain) by focusing on their region of origin and their language competence. The research examines the individual and the joint effect of both variables in the development of language attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to 954 students of Secondary Education. Results reveal that region of origin and language competence are influentia…
Acculturation strategies and attitudes and their relationship with the identification of descendants of migrants in the Catalan school context
The mass arrival of immigrants to Catalonia (Spain) in the last two decades has led to a change in the socio-demographic composition of a society which de facto is characteristically bilingual and bicultural. The acculturation process undergone by young descendants of migrants and how they identify in this context are essential in order to overcome the social challenges arising in different societies. We have carried out a mixed study in order to…
A Study on Language Attitudes Towards Regional and Foreign Languages by School Children in Aragon, Spain
The study of language attitudes has proved vital in order to guarantee the success of any proposal for language teaching in schools. Nevertheless, in Aragon, a region of Northern Spain close to the Pyrenees, three regional languages coexist. The number of studies on this phenomenon is scarce, and we can only associate this lack of research with the absence of enthusiasm with which language attitudes have traditionally been treated. In this contex…
People in contact, languages in contact. A multi-group analysis of the effects of interethnic contact on acculturation attitudes
The present study aims to enhance previous knowledge on the role of interethnic contact as a tool to improve the linguistic integration of immigrants in bilingual receiving societies. We examined the effect of interethnic contact on natives’ support for immigrants’ language maintenance as well as on immigrants’ attitudes towards natives’ languages (in addition to L1 identification). The study was conducted in western Catalonia (Lleida), a region …
Identidad colectiva, ciudadanía e inmigración. Consecuencias para la lengua y la Escuela
El proceso de construcción de la identidad colectiva supone la definición de un “nosotros” el cual determina en gran medida las percepciones de los que consideramos como los “otros”. En el caso del Estado español, la llegada de inmigrantes en los últimos años ha supuesto que, de hecho, se desarrollen discursos y representaciones sociales de la inmigración que están lejos de facilitar su integración. Unas representaciones ancladas en un concepto d…
Does interethnic contact buffer against the socialization of anti-immigrant prejudice? A test on the impact of parents', school and contextual countrywide attitudes on young people
Social science research has shown that interethnic contact reduces prejudiced attitudes. It has been also proven to successfully intervene in several mechanisms of prejudice formation such as when feelings of threat arise. However, there are few studies that examine the potential of interethnic contact in the reduction of prejudice transmission. Using data from PISA 2018, this article examines the impact that anti-immigrant attitudes from three s…
Linguistic Acculturation Preferences of Autochthonous Students Toward Their Latin American Peers in Western Catalonia
Located in the province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), this study aims to identify and analyze the predictors of linguistic acculturation preferences of autochthonous high-school students toward their peers of Latin American descent. Autochthonous high-school students (N = 349) filled a questionnaire measuring linguistic acculturation and a series of linguistic and social-psychological variables (i.e. multicultural ideology, ethnic tolerance, atti…
The differentiated role of language knowledge and linguistic acculturation strategies in the configuration of occupational aspirations: The case of the descendants of migrants in Western Catalonia
One of the most influential factors in the future access to the labour market of a young descendant of migrants is their occupational aspirations. Sociodemographic, socio-cultural, and socio-professional family elements or knowledge of languages are key in their formation. But in bilingual societies like Catalonia, the symbolism associated with languages is an added complexity.Thus, this article aims to analyse the influence and predictive power …
Self-identifications of youth in Catalonia: A linguistic acculturation theory approach
Located in Catalonia (Spain), and based on the Acculturation Theory applied to the field of linguistics, the objectives of this article are: (i) to detect and study the linguistic acculturation strategies of young people; (ii) to analyse the effects of origin and linguistic acculturation profiles relating to self-identifications with Spain and Catalonia and; (iii) to explore the predictive power of these variables. The quantitative data belongs t…
The legal rights of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren: The current state of Aragonese language teaching in Aragon (Spain)
Aragon is an autonomous community within Spain where, historically, three languages are spoken: Aragonese, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish. Both Aragonese and Catalan are minority and minoritised languages within the territory, while Castilian Spanish, the majority language, enjoys total legal protection and legitimation. The fact that we live in the era of the nation-state is crucial for understanding endangered languages in their specific socio-…
A model of relationship between collective identity and language in pluricultural and plurilingual settings: Influence on intercultural relations
Linguistic attitudes in Aragon: A school view
The study of the linguistic attitudes has been considered a key element when we pretend to guarantee the success of any proposal of treatment of the languages in the school. In spite of it, in the case of Aragon (Spain), where three languages are spoken along the territory, the practical non-existence research in this way is only coherent with the lack of determination that the topic has been traditionally treaty. In this context, taking as a ref…
Identidad colectiva y lengua en contextos pluriculturales y plurilingües. El caso del Valle de Arán (Lleida. España)
La comarca del Valle de Arán (Cataluña) presenta unas peculiaridades lingüísticas y sociodemográficas que la convierten en un escenario ideal para el estudio del proceso de construcción de la identidad colectiva y su relación con la lengua. En este artículo presentamos un análisis de la construcción de la identidad colectiva en este territorio y el papel de la lengua en este proceso. Partiendo de una concepción basada en que la importancia de la …
Identidad colectiva, ciudadanía e inmigración. Consecuencias para la lengua y la Escuela
El proceso de construcción de la identidad colectiva supone la definición de un “nosotros” el cual determina en gran medida las percepciones de los que consideramos como los “otros”. En el caso del Estado español, la llegada de inmigrantes en los últimos años ha supuesto que, de hecho, se desarrollen discursos y representaciones sociales de la inmigración que están lejos de facilitar su integración. Unas representaciones ancladas en un concepto d…
Linguistic attitudes in Aragon: A school view
The study of the linguistic attitudes has been considered a key element when we pretend to guarantee the success of any proposal of treatment of the languages in the school. In spite of it, in the case of Aragon (Spain), where three languages are spoken along the territory, the practical non-existence research in this way is only coherent with the lack of determination that the topic has been traditionally treaty. In this context, taking as a ref…
A Study on Language Attitudes Towards Regional and Foreign Languages by School Children in Aragon, Spain
The study of language attitudes has proved vital in order to guarantee the success of any proposal for language teaching in schools. Nevertheless, in Aragon, a region of Northern Spain close to the Pyrenees, three regional languages coexist. The number of studies on this phenomenon is scarce, and we can only associate this lack of research with the absence of enthusiasm with which language attitudes have traditionally been treated. In this contex…
A model of relationship between collective identity and language in pluricultural and plurilingual settings: Influence on intercultural relations
Redefining cultural identity through language in young Romanian migrants in Spain
This article presents an analysis based on theories of interactionism of the Self on how young Romanian immigrants in Catalonia (Spain) redefine their cultural identity in the host country. The article also discusses how interactions with their significant others and access to different symbolic worlds through different languages condition this redefinition. The results have been obtained through the completion and analysis of 22 in-depth semi-st…
Language attitudes, family language and generational cohort in Catalonia: New contributions from a multivariate analysis
The effect of the generational cohort on language attitudes has hardly ever been studied. However, especially in the bilingual territories in Spain, the literature stresses the importance of being Spanish-speakers or non-Spanish-speakers in the construction of these attitudes. Focusing on the case of Catalonia (Spain), this paper intends to analyse the impact of the family language and the generational cohort on the language attitudes towards Cat…
Can language attitudes be improved? A longitudinal study of immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain)
This study explores changes in attitudes towards Catalan, Spanish, and English over a 2-year period, on the part of secondary education students of immigrant origin residing in Catalonia. It aims to provide new data by adopting a longitudinal design and by focusing on the immigrant population, which has raised new challenges for the Catalan society and education system. Data were collected from 72 secondary education students who answered a langu…
Linguistic genocide or superdiversity: New and old language diversities
Book review of Linguistic genocide or superdiversity: new and old language diversities, edited by Reetta Toivanen and Janne Saarikivi, Bristol, Multilingual Matters, 2016, 376 pp., ISBN 9781783096053
Evolution and determinants of language attitudes among Catalan adolescents
Attitudinal patterns of secondary education students in Catalonia. The direct and moderator effects of origin
Language attitudes have become more relevant than ever as a result of the considerable number of immigrant students enrolled in the Catalan educational system and the challenges this entails in terms of promoting social integration and language learning. Therefore, the objective of the study is to increase our understanding of language attitudes formation by analysing how origin (autochthonous or immigrant) influences (a) the attitudes towards Ca…
Opening perspectives from an integrated analysis: Language attitudes, place of birth and self-identification
There is a theoretical and empirical tradition demonstrating the influence of the place of birth and self-identification in the shaping of language attitudes. But very few works analyse their joint effects. The main aim of this study is to analyse both the disaggregated and joint impact of these variables on the shaping of attitudes towards Catalan and Spanish languages in Catalonia. The sample consists of 309 adolescents (aged 14-16 years) comin…
Usos lingüísticos y formación en lengua y cultura de origen. ¿Una herramienta de integración socioeducativa
Unos equilibrados usos lingüísticos por parte de los descendientes de migrados son unelemento clave de cara a su integración actual y futura. En este sentido, existe una corriente teóricaque postula que un mayor grado de integración de estos jóvenes, revierte en un mayor conocimientode las lenguas, unas más favorables actitudes y unos usos más equilibrados. Este mayor grado deintegración es más fácil de alcanzar si se capitalizan las lenguas y cu…
Language attitudes towards Spanish and Catalan in autochthonous and immigrant families in Catalonia: Analysing the correlation between student attitudes and their parents’
This paper analyses the language attitudes of autochthonous and immigrant families living in Catalonia towards Spanish and Catalan. The research is intended to assess the possible differences in the language attitudes of students and their parents towards the two languages spoken in Catalonia. The investigation takes a sample of 476 students and their families from several cities in Catalonia who answered an attitude questionnaire. The data were …
The legal rights of Aragonese-speaking schoolchildren: The current state of Aragonese language teaching in Aragon (Spain)
Aragon is an autonomous community within Spain where, historically, three languages are spoken: Aragonese, Catalan, and Castilian Spanish. Both Aragonese and Catalan are minority and minoritised languages within the territory, while Castilian Spanish, the majority language, enjoys total legal protection and legitimation. The fact that we live in the era of the nation-state is crucial for understanding endangered languages in their specific socio-…
Acculturation strategies and attitudes and their relationship with the identification of descendants of migrants in the Catalan school context
The mass arrival of immigrants to Catalonia (Spain) in the last two decades has led to a change in the socio-demographic composition of a society which de facto is characteristically bilingual and bicultural. The acculturation process undergone by young descendants of migrants and how they identify in this context are essential in order to overcome the social challenges arising in different societies. We have carried out a mixed study in order to…
Identity and linguistic acculturation expectations. The attitudes of Western Catalan high-school students towards Moroccans and Romanians
Self-identifications of youth in Catalonia: A linguistic acculturation theory approach
Located in Catalonia (Spain), and based on the Acculturation Theory applied to the field of linguistics, the objectives of this article are: (i) to detect and study the linguistic acculturation strategies of young people; (ii) to analyse the effects of origin and linguistic acculturation profiles relating to self-identifications with Spain and Catalonia and; (iii) to explore the predictive power of these variables. The quantitative data belongs t…
The differentiated role of language knowledge and linguistic acculturation strategies in the configuration of occupational aspirations: The case of the descendants of migrants in Western Catalonia
One of the most influential factors in the future access to the labour market of a young descendant of migrants is their occupational aspirations. Sociodemographic, socio-cultural, and socio-professional family elements or knowledge of languages are key in their formation. But in bilingual societies like Catalonia, the symbolism associated with languages is an added complexity.Thus, this article aims to analyse the influence and predictive power …
Language attitudes towards English in local and immigrant students in Catalonia: Analysis of the joint effect of language competence and region of origin
This paper investigates the attitudes towards English of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia (Spain) by focusing on their region of origin and their language competence. The research examines the individual and the joint effect of both variables in the development of language attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to 954 students of Secondary Education. Results reveal that region of origin and language competence are influentia…
When immigrant and regional minority languages coexist: Linguistic authority and integration in multilingual linguistic acculturation
This study explores integration and linguistic acculturation in Catalonia (Spain), a multilingual setting where a state and a regional language coexist with those of immigration. Using qualitative content analysis, we examined the linguistic acculturation profiles of 13 high-school students of immigrant background and the linguistic acculturation expectations of 15 autochthonous students, considering Spanish, Catalan and heritage languages. Then,…
Acculturation preferences, conflict and cultural enrichment on secondary education in Western Catalonia
Purpose Located in Western Catalonia (Spain), the article’s aim is to analyse the acculturation preferences of majority group high-school students towards their peers of Moroccan and Romanian descent. Furthermore, it aims to delve deeper into the influence on the perception of conflict with these groups mediated by cultural enrichment. Design/methodology/approach The data are the result of conducting a questionnaire among 349 autochthonous studen…
Linguistic Acculturation Preferences of Autochthonous Students Toward Their Latin American Peers in Western Catalonia
Located in the province of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain), this study aims to identify and analyze the predictors of linguistic acculturation preferences of autochthonous high-school students toward their peers of Latin American descent. Autochthonous high-school students (N = 349) filled a questionnaire measuring linguistic acculturation and a series of linguistic and social-psychological variables (i.e. multicultural ideology, ethnic tolerance, atti…
‘They speak Arabic to make teachers angry’: High-school teachers’ (de)legitimization of heritage languages in Catalonia
This study explores high-school teachers’ discourse on heritage language use regarding their students of immigrant background in Catalonia, Spain, where both Catalan and Spanish are official languages. For this purpose, 10 high-school teachers from 5 schools with a high ratio of foreign students were interviewed. These interviews were analysed using membership categorization analysis. The results show that the perceived appropriateness of heritag…
Linguistic acculturation preferences of Catalan local students toward their peers of Moroccan descent. The determining factors of linguistic assimilationism
As a response to the migratory movements initiated at the end of the past century in Catalonia (Spain), its educational system aims to promote interculturality and multilingualism as a way to achieve social cohesion. For this purpose, it is important to improve our understanding of the linguistic acculturation preferences endorsed by local students toward students of immigrant origin – a scarcely studied factor. One of the main factors for achiev…
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