Abstract:

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
s p o ken along the terr i t o ry, 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 reference school children in Compulsory Secondary
Education, our goal is twofold: 1) to describe the attitudes towards the languages in
contact (Aragonese, Castilian-Spanish and Catalan), as well as the two foreign
languages who are more present in the school curriculum (French and English), and
2) to analyze the incidence of some of the main factors that determine those
attitudes. The heterogeneity among the linguistic areas in Aragon derived from our
data, should take to a deep reflection about the future actions to undert a ke in the
schools located in those that have been considered the classical linguistic Aragonese
territories: the Aragonese speaking area, the Castilian-Spanish speaking area ant the
Catalan speaking area.

Author: Ángel Huguet Canalís, Cecilio Lapresta Rey