Resumen de The structure and correlates of attitudes to English among pupils of Asian origin
Using a pool of items accumulated from the statements of pupils, their teachers and prominent members of Asian communities in and around London six factor scales with the following characteristics were constructed: (1) anxiety about performance in English at school and among the peer group; (2) the value of the use of English in the total community; (3) the suitability of the use of English in religious observance; (4) the role of the home in encouraging English; (5) a pro‐own language attitude; (6) a linguistic motivation scale concerned with the usefulness of English for professional and social advancement. The correlates of the above scales among a range of linguistic measures relevant to bilingualism, and the differences between the sexes and between speakers of the three major Indian languages in the sample: Urdu, Gujerati and Panjabi, are discussed.
