Latin American Students and Language Learning in Catalonia: What does the Linguistic Interdependence Hypothesis show us?

• Published in: The Spanish journal of psychology Vol. 17; p. E11
• Main Author: Huguet, Angel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2014; Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Subjects: Adolescent; Education - organization & administration; Education - standards; Educational Measurement; Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology; Female; Humans; Latin America - ethnology; Linguistics; Male; Multilingualism; Schools - organization & administration; Schools - standards; Social, Educational and Work Psychology; Spain - ethnology; Students - psychology; Catalan; Spanish; transfer; interdependence; immigrant children

The massive arrival in Spain of students of immigrant origin has visibly altered the traditional configuration of schools, where ethnic, cultural and linguistic diversity is becoming increasingly manifest. This situation is worth being mentioned insofar as it affects all the different autonomous com...