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English in Spain: Education, attitudes and native-speakerism
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English in Spain
native-speakerism
attitudes to English
non-native English language teachers
Clasificación UNESCO
5701 Lingüística Aplicada
Fecha de publicación
2024-04-06
Citación
Llurda, E., & Mocanu, V. (2024). English in Spain: Education, attitudes and native-speakerism. World Englishes, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12651
Resumen
Spain has traditionally featured rather low in the rankings
measuring the knowledge of English by European citizens,
and yet English has been constantly entering different areas
of Spanish life and in all levels of education. This article
delves into the efforts made at different levels of education to enable school graduates to communicate in English
without difficulty. It focuses on how young people concep tualise English: their attitudes towards the language and to
what extent they associate it with Inner Circle countries,
or whether instead they see it as a tool for international
communication. This discussion is complemented with an
analysis of the pervasiveness of ‘native-speakerism’ in Spanish society, which we claim acts as another handicap to the
normalisation of the use of English as a lingua franca by Spanish citizens in multicultural settings within and outside the
country.
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https://doi.org/10.1111/weng.12651
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