Actitudes de los maestros en formación hacia las lenguas extranjeras y la educación multilingüe

Abstract

Foreign languages teaching has been intensely implemented in Aragon during the last two decades. Nevertheless, there are still few researches focused on its situation and results in both the academic and the sociolinguistic area. The main objective of this research is to explore the attitudes of teacher training students in Zaragoza University towards multilingual education and the main foreign languages taught in the educational system regional and national (English and French). The study also aims to examine the use of these languages among future teachers. The research was carried out through a survey with 874 participants from 1st and 4th grade of Primary Education Teacher Training. The results show neutral attitudes towards French language and favorable attitudes towards English and multilingual education. It has been also found the influence of some variables like the linguistic profile and the academic grade, mainly sifnificant in the attitudes towards multilingual education.