Creencias y actitudes hacia las variedades cultas del español de alumnos vietnamitas. Aplicación de PRECAVES XXI a la enseñanza de ELE

Abstract

In this study, beliefs, and attitudes towards the cultured varieties of the Spanish language are analyzed among students in the last two years of the Hispanic Studies degree at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), within the framework of the PRECAVES XXI project (project for the study of beliefs and attitudes towards the cultured varieties of Spanish in the 21st century). For this purpose, an assessment of knowledge about varieties was conducted in two phases – through the PRECAVES XXI survey – with a didactic intervention between both phases. The PRECAVES XXI survey allows for the study of knowledge of Spanish varieties directly through 16 recordings of two types of discourse (spontaneous or read) from eight varieties of Spanish: Castilian, Andalusian, Canary, Mexican, Caribbean, Andean, Rioplatense, and Chilean. The main conclusion is the difficulty these students have in the exact identification of varieties, since they only show, after the didactic intervention, improvement in generic identification, especially with the distinction between conservative and innovative varieties.