‘They speak Arabic to make teachers angry’: high-school teachers’ (de)legitimization of heritage languages in Catalonia

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• dc.contributor.author Sáenz-Hernández, Isabel
• dc.contributor.author Petreñas, Cristina
• dc.contributor.author Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio
• dc.contributor.author Ubalde, Josep
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-09-30T06:22:57Z
• dc.date.available 2025-09-30T06:22:57Z
• dc.date.issued 2023
• dc.description.abstract This study explores high-school teachers’ discourse on heritage language use regarding their students of immigrant background in Catalonia, Spain, where both Catalan and Spanish are official languages. For this purpose, 10 high-school teachers from 5 schools with a high ratio of foreign students were interviewed. These interviews were analysed using membership categorization analysis. The results show that the perceived appropriateness of heritage language use depends on whether the students are integrated enough in the eyes of locals. Additionally, heritage language use in public is judged from the perspective of a Catalan listener and is deemed disrespectful. This is particularly salient in students of Moroccan background, where language maintenance is associated with overly strict adherence to Islam. The need for training teachers on how to properly address the linguistic and cultural diversity of their classrooms is discussed.en
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• dc.identifier.citation Sáenz-Hernández I, Petreñas C, Lapresta-Rey C, Ubalde J. ‘They speak Arabic to make teachers angry’: high-school teachers’ (de)legitimization of heritage languages in Catalonia. Linguistics and Education. 2023 Dec;78:101232. DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2023.101232
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101232
• dc.identifier.issn 0898-5898
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/71298
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Linguistics and Education. 2023 Dec;78:101232
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/).
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Heritage languagesen
• dc.subject.keyword Immigrant studentsen
• dc.subject.keyword Multilingual studentsen
• dc.subject.keyword Membership categorization analysisen
• dc.subject.keyword Cataloniaen
• dc.title ‘They speak Arabic to make teachers angry’: high-school teachers’ (de)legitimization of heritage languages in Cataloniaen
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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