CONTEXTS OF USE OF SPANISH AND AMAZIGH, ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS OF BILINGUAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF BERBER ORIGIN
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https://doi.org/10.37536/LYM.1.16.2024.2341Keywords:
contexts of use, language attitudes, perceptions, bilingualism, Berber language (Amazigh), university studentsAbstract
In language contact situations, bilingual speakers decide which language to use depending on their context. The aim of this study is to discover the contexts of use of Spanish and the Berber language (Amazigh) in a Spanish city with a significant bilingual population, and to find out the attitudes and perceptions that participants have about the use of Amazigh. There are 156 Spanish-Amazige bilingual university students from the University of Granada at the Melilla Campus. After the implementation of a questionnaire designed ad hoc, in this empirical-analytical quantitative research, the results point to the flexible use of the main languages of the city, among which Spanish stands out first, and then both languages in a similar way. The exclusive use of Amazigh is lost even in the most familiar contexts and in the Berber culture itself. Attitudes and perceptions about the use of Amazigh are positive, but to a low degree.
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