Language attitudes of adolescent Filipino bilingual learners towards English and Filipino

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Dept of English and Applied Linguistics

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Asian Englishes

Volume

18

Issue

2

First Page

109

Last Page

128

Publication Date

6-16-2016

Abstract

The current study explored the different attitudes of bilingual high school students towards English and Filipino and examined the relationship of language attitudes in terms of gender, age, and socioeconomic status (SES). A total of 473 Filipino participants, randomly selected from three secondary learning institutions (two public, one private), answered a three-part questionnaire (Language Background Questionnaire, General Language Attitudes Survey, and Language Orientation Survey). Descriptive analysis and Pearson correlation revealed the following: in general, students have very high positive attitude towards English and Filipino; females have significantly higher positive attitudes towards English than males; SES is significantly related to positive attitudes towards English language; gender is significantly related with instrumental language orientation in Filipino; age is significantly related to instrumental language orientation in Filipino and integrative language orientation in English; and SES is significantly related to all language orientations. © 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1080/13488678.2016.1179474

Disciplines

Language and Literacy Education

Keywords

Bilingualism--Philippines; English language--Philippines

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