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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1514
dc.title	Social Representations and Motivation in FL Study. A Wall in the Face of the Spread of Italian in Morocco
dc.contributor.author	Fawzi Karrami Jihad
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	it
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/elle/2018/2/rappresentazioni-sociali-e-motivazione-allo-studio/
dc.description.abstract	The so called ‘social representations’ have long occupied enormous interest in scholars’ concern mainly in the field of language education. The research in this particular branch of social psychology has made it possible to understand that the attitudes and perception of students towards a language studied within a given society play a significant role in their desire to learn it or in their partial refusal of it or even in their rejection of that language. This article mainly examines the impact of social representations on students’ motivation for learning Italian in a context where several foreign languages are in competition. The research was undertaken in Moulay Abdellah High School in Rabat, adopting a quantitative and qualitative methodology to analyse students’ linguistic attitudes towards Italian. The research’s results proved, in compliance with previous literature, that social representations do define the de facto status of Italian in the Moroccan educational system.
dc.relation.ispartof	EL.LE
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 7 \| Issue 2 \| July 2018
dc.issued	2018-07-01
dc.dateAccepted	2018-08-28
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-04-07
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2280-6792
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/ELLE/2280-6792/2018/02/002
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Educational linguistic politics
dc.subject	Educational linguistic politics
dc.subject	Linguistic attitudes
dc.subject	Linguistic attitudes
dc.subject	Motivation
dc.subject	Motivation
dc.subject	Social representations
dc.subject	Social representations

Research Article
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A Wall in the Face of the Spread of Italian in Morocco

Jihad Fawzi Karrami Université Mohammed V - Rabat

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abstract

The so called ‘social representations’ have long occupied enormous interest in scholars’ concern mainly in the field of language education. The research in this particular branch of social psychology has made it possible to understand that the attitudes and perception of students towards a language studied within a given society play a significant role in their desire to learn it or in their partial refusal of it or even in their rejection of that language. This article mainly examines the impact of social representations on students’ motivation for learning Italian in a context where several foreign languages are in competition. The research was undertaken in Moulay Abdellah High School in Rabat, adopting a quantitative and qualitative methodology to analyse students’ linguistic attitudes towards Italian. The research’s results proved, in compliance with previous literature, that social representations do define the de facto status of Italian in the Moroccan educational system.

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July 1, 2018

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Aug. 28, 2018

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April 7, 2018

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Keywords: Educational linguistic politics • Linguistic attitudes • Social representations • Motivation

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