The Age and Context of Acquisition of Euskera and Castilian: A Matter of the Bilingual Education and Politics of the Basque Language

Balluerka, Nekane; Gorostiaga, Arantxa; Stock, William A.

doi:10.1080/15235882.1996.10668639

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“…); the third, explaining 8.7% of total variance, refers to use of the language at typical Basque events; the fourth, explaining 6.4% of the total variance, refers to use of the language at a set of common events; the fifth, explaining 5.1% of total variance, refers to the language in which participants watch television; the sixth, explaining 3.9% of the total variance, refers to the language in which they listen to the radio; and the seventh, explaining 3.6% of total variance, refers to the language in which they read newspapers. More complete studies on the psychometric characteristics of this scale are reported in Gorostiaga (2000) and in Balluerka, Gorostiaga, and Stock (1996).…”

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The Influence of the Social Use and the History of Acquisition of Euskera on Comprehension and Recall of Scientific Texts in Euskera and Castilian

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Balluerka

2002

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This study examined the influence of the social use and the history of acquisition of Euskera (the Basque language) on comprehension and recall of two versions (EuskeraCastilian) of a scientific text read by bilingual high school and college students. Comprehension was measured by performance on an inferential task and recall by efficiency on a test that assessed recognition of essential and supplementary information in the text. Results suggested that both extensive social use and an active history of acquisition of a language improve the level of comprehension of a text written in that language. However, neither factor facilitated the recognition of essential information in the text. The possible implications of these results for education are discussed.Euskera (the Basque language) is one of the minority languages of the Iberian Peninsula. Speakers of Euskera live in the Basque Country, which is situated in the north of Spain, next to the French border. Today, there are no monolingual speakers of

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