Linguistic attitudes based on cognitive, affective and behavioral components in respect to Andalusian linguistic variation of Moroccan university students

Abstract

The present paper aims to study cognitive, behavioral and affective components of attitudes toward Andalusian linguistic modality in learning contexts from 105 Moroccan university students of Spanish as a foreign language. The studied variables were the morphological and syntactic components of the Andalusian linguistic modality and attitudes toward usual linguistic habits according to different communicative situations. Results indicated instruments of the study have the corresponding psychometric properties according to the sample. Results showed morphological and syntactic components are related to attitudes toward different communicative situations of the Andalusian linguistic modality with a higher level of prediction upon standard and informal communicative situations. Regarding demographic variables such as gender did not show significant differences toward grammatical knowledge of Andalusian linguistic modality. However, gender variable showed significant differences toward its usage in a standard context. The study opens new paths of research about attitudes toward both Andalusian linguistic modality and Spanish language according to a dual condition of heritage and foreign language due to multilingual contexts of learning and their difficulties.