{"id":7261,"date":"2017-03-02T13:13:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moroccodemia.com\/en\/?page_id=7261"},"modified":"2017-06-08T11:14:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T11:14:57","slug":"language-attitudes-aptitudes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.moroccodemia.com\/en\/language-attitudes-aptitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Language attitudes and aptitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rTable\" style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"rTableBody\">\n<div class=\"rTableRow\">\n<div class=\"rTableHead\">\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Language attitudes and aptitudes<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moroccodemia.com\/en\/media\/2015\/09\/Beige-Book-Icon.png\" width=\"610\" height=\"100\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7036 size-full\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Title<\/i>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Language attitudes and aptitudes<\/span>*<br \/>\n <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Author:<\/i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Hassan Bouzidi<br \/>\n <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Description<\/i>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Case study<br \/>\n <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Subject<\/i>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Applied Linguistics<br \/>\n <\/span><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Publisher<\/i>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 LAP, Rabat<\/span><br \/>\n <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><i>Date<\/i>: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0BwfxPJvHEn_8UnZvck5hTkNwek0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moroccodemia.com\/en\/media\/2017\/03\/Book-CoverBouzidi-Hassan2015.png\" alt=\"Language Attitudes &amp; Aptitudes\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7264 size-full\" title=\"Language Attitudes &amp; Aptitudes\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate language attitudes and aptitudes in three representative areas of Morocco. The impact of these attitudes on the individual&#8217;s socio-psychological makeup, especially within the system of education, is examined and emphasis is put upon the relationship between students&#8217; and parents&#8217; attitudes, on the one hand, and achievement in second-language learning, on the other hand. The working hypothesis is that it helps learners of a second language, who wish to have a good command of the language, to hold a positive attitude towards the other speech community. By adopting a socio-psychological approach, I seek to examine my subjects&#8217; affective as well as behavioural dispositions and the impact of the latter on any language planning programme in Morocco. By so doing I intend to contribute to the search for a most suitable approach to language-related problems in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">To achieve this purpose, a group of workers, students and teachers volunteered to fill out questionnaires on their evaluations of languages and language planning efforts in Morocco. Others volunteered to take part in the matched-guise experiments and interviews concerning their use of language and their desire to learn a second language. The attitude-behaviour relationship was also examined through observation, including participant observation. The subjects were stratified according to age, sex, mother tongue, social status and provenance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The first three substantive sections of the dissertation aim at familiarising the reader with the social and linguistic situation in Morocco, social psychology as applied to language studies, and the data-eliciting techniques used in the thesis. The subsequent three chapters are concerned with the analysis and discussion of the corpus of data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=0BwfxPJvHEn_8UnZvck5hTkNwek0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moroccodemia.com\/en\/media\/2017\/03\/Attitudes-and-Aptitudes3D-small-259x300.png\" alt=\"Language Attitudes &amp; Aptitudes\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7269 size-medium\" title=\"Language Attitudes &amp; Aptitudes\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">The results showed significant differences between the attitudes of the groups towards French, Standard Arabic and the vernacular languages (i.e. Moroccan Arabic and Amazigh). The correlation analysis showed a negative relationship between grades and the attitude variables. Only a weak relationship was found between socio-psychological variables and second-language proficiency. Attitudinal and motivational characteristics obtained from the students&#8217; parents were included in the study, and a positive correlation between student language proficiency and parental language attitudes and motivation was obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>_____________________<br \/>\n *<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;\"><em>This book is an updated version of a PhD thesis submitted to the University of Glasgow (U.K.) in 1992.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">Language attitudes and aptitudes\/<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language attitudes and aptitudes Title: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Language attitudes and aptitudes* Author:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 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