An investigation into the plurilingual profile of the newly arrived students at the Melilla Campus of the University of Granada

Abstract

This mixed-methodology research aims to describe the multilingual reality of first-year students in the context of Melilla (University of Granada), among whose sociolinguistic variables is bilingualism since their mother tongue is Tamazight (Arabic dialect of the Rif area of ​​Morocco) and Spanish, as a second language (L2). According to the CEFR, university students must have the ability to speak more than one language to promote the transmission of knowledge and research, and thus consolidate multilingual higher education. The data obtained determine that there is a multilingual profile, although they do not achieve sufficient communicative competence in a foreign language to become independent users.