El mantenimiento de la lengua nativa entre multilingües: el caso de inmigrantes iraníes que hablan inglés en España.

• Autores: Niloofar Fathizaviyehkord
• Directores de la Tesis: JoAnne Neff van Aertselaer (dir. tes.), Paloma Tejada Caller (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universidad Complutense de Madrid ( España ) en 2024
• Idioma: español
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Heritage language maintenance among multilingual speakers: the case of english speaking iranian immigrants in Spain.
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Mariann Larsen Pehrzon (presid.), Davinia Sánchez García (secret.), Samira Allani (voc.), Marta Genís Pedra (voc.), Silvia Molina Plaza (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Lingüística Inglesa por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Materias:
  • Lingüística
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: Docta Complutense
• Resumen

  • The wave of immigration to European countries due to political and economic factors and the problems associated with millions of diaspora cannot be denied in the current world. This study intended to investigate one of the inherent problems related to the effect of English on heritage language maintenance or loss among Iranian immigrants in Spain. The first area of interest was the role that English language played in shaping Iranian immigrants' sense of identity with different social and attitudinal factors in Spain taken into account. The next main research question was Iranian immigrants' attitudes to the role of English on their heritage language maintenance. In the third research question the maintenance of English itself besides their own heritage language was investigated. The last main research question was about the role that English language played in Iranian immigrants' choice of strategies in maintaining their heritage language. Each of the main questions had minor questions that fathomed the complex process of heritage language maintenance or loss and the role that English language played in this regard. Due to challenges involved in social studies, convenient sampling was used to collect data. The data collection procedure was through the questionnaire that had been used in various studies. The second procedure was interviewing the participants. The collected data was analyzed via chi-square goodness of fit, and correlation to answer the research questions. The analysis of the data showed that Iranian immigrants had positive attitudes on variables of admiration, hatred, rejection, disdain, superiority, acceptance, and hostility. The analysis of the interviews revealed that English did play varying roles in Iranian immigrants' feeling but its effect was mediated trough myriads of social and cultural factors and was far from being straightforward and simple. Concerning the role of English on the maintenance of their heritage language and their attitude about maintaining English language, the analysis of quantitative and qualitative data showed that while they tried to learn Spanish as the main language, they did use English in many different occasions as the auxiliary language on which they had better mastery. Their attitudes about maintaining English language showed that different aspects of English attracted their attention, and depended on the situation in which they were. Data analysis revealed that English had a role to play in their choice of strategy in maintaining their heritage language such as resorting to either their heritage language or English to preserve their privacy occasionally or in finding a suitable job in which mastery of English was required. The study has implications on sociolinguistic and socio-cultural aspects of second and foreign language learning.

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