@misc{10481/29104,
year = {2013},
month = {6},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/29104},
abstract = {This study involves the examination of the attitudes of a group of Mexican American students towards learning English as a second language in a structured immersion program. It also analyzes the extent to which these attitudes differ in relation to the variables of gender and performance in English. Participants were 110 students (girls, n = 56, boys, n = 54) in grades 8-12 in the Compton Unified School District (California, USA). One noteworthy finding of this study is the appearance of a general factor that defines the homogeneous structure of the instruments used in the assessment of student attitudes toward second language learning. In addition, a further factor, which the authors have termed “pressure to learn English” was also identified. This factor is manifested in a high average correlation of all variables. It reveals the motivation to learn a second language in the context of vital necessity where learning English is a key element for the integration in a territory in which the use of Spanish is prohibited by law.},
publisher = {Universidad de Granada},
keywords = {Mexican american strudents},
keywords = {Attitudes},
keywords = {Structured english inmersion},
keywords = {Learning english second language},
title = {Attitudes of mexican american students towards learning english as a second language in a
structured immersion program},
doi = {10.30827/Digibug.29104},
author = {Uribe Martínez, Diego and Gutiérrez Pérez, José and Madrid Fernández, Daniel},
}