Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings.
Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learnin...
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Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency is well known. However, the effect of such environments on attitudes towards second languages (L2) has been less studied. This article presents a qualitative study that explores the extent to which the implementation of a particular dialogue-based classroom strategy, named Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs), may transform secondary students’ attitudes towards Basque (L2). The DLGs were carried out with 46 secondary education students in the Basque Country. After implementing DLGs, teachers’ interviews and students’ focus groups were conducted and analysed inductively. Results show that participants reported changes in students’ attitudes towards Basque and they related these changes to the dialogical space they experienced during the DLGs, since this created affordances for them to engage in meaningful discussions when speaking in Basque. Implications of the study are discussed.
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| spelling | doaj.art-785c303d168a46c9888c14104161be342022-12-22T02:44:37ZengHipatia PressInternational Journal of Educational Psychology2014-35912022-06-0111210.17583/ijep.10050Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings.Maite Santiago-Garabieta0Rocío García-Carrión1Lourdes Villardón-Gallego2University of DeustoUniversity of DeustoUniversity of Deusto Over the last decades, many efforts have been made to establish the Basque minority language as a normalized language in the Basque Country. Research has shown that language use, language proficiency and attitudes towards language are closely associated. Likewise, the benefit of interactive learning environments for improving language proficiency is well known. However, the effect of such environments on attitudes towards second languages (L2) has been less studied. This article presents a qualitative study that explores the extent to which the implementation of a particular dialogue-based classroom strategy, named Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLGs), may transform secondary students’ attitudes towards Basque (L2). The DLGs were carried out with 46 secondary education students in the Basque Country. After implementing DLGs, teachers’ interviews and students’ focus groups were conducted and analysed inductively. Results show that participants reported changes in students’ attitudes towards Basque and they related these changes to the dialogical space they experienced during the DLGs, since this created affordances for them to engage in meaningful discussions when speaking in Basque. Implications of the study are discussed. https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/ijep/article/view/10050BasqueLanguage LearningInteractive communicationbilingual educationsecondary education |
| spellingShingle | Maite Santiago-Garabieta Rocío García-Carrión Lourdes Villardón-Gallego Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings. International Journal of Educational Psychology Basque Language Learning Interactive communication bilingual education secondary education |
| title | Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings. |
| title_full | Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings. |
| title_fullStr | Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings. |
| title_short | Strengthening Ties to L2: Improving Secondary Students’ Attitudes through Dialogic Literary Gatherings. |
| title_sort | strengthening ties to l2 improving secondary students attitudes through dialogic literary gatherings |
| topic | Basque Language Learning Interactive communication bilingual education secondary education |
| url | https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/ijep/article/view/10050 |
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