Attitudes of Mexican American Students Towards Learning English as a Second Language in a Structured Immersion Program

  1. Uribe Martínez, Diego
  2. Gutiérrez Pérez, José
Revista:
Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

ISSN: 1697-7467

Año de publicación: 2013

Número: 20

Páginas: 205-221

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.30827/DIGIBUG.29104 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

Otras publicaciones en: Porta Linguarum: revista internacional de didáctica de las lenguas extranjeras

Resumen

Este trabajo se propone explorar las actitudes de un grupo de estudiantes estadounidenses de origen mejicano hacia el aprendizaje del inglés como segunda lengua en un programa de estudios de inmersión. También analiza hasta qué punto estas actitudes difieren en función del sexo y la actuación del alumnado. Se ha empleado una muestra de 110 estudiantes (56 chicas y 54 chicos) de los grados 8 al 12 del Compton Unified School District, en California. Uno de los descubrimientos más notables de este estudio ha sido la aparición, en el análisis factorial, de un factor general que define la estructura homogénea de los instrumentos utilizados en la evaluación de las actitudes del estudiantado hacia el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua. También hemos encontrado otro factor clave que hemos denominado �presión social hacia el uso del inglés�. Este factor se manifiesta con una alta correlación con todas las variables y revela que la motivación para el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua en un contexto de vital necesidad donde el aprendizaje del inglés es un factor clave para la integración social en un territorio en el que el uso del español en contextos formales está prohibido por ley

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