Reflexiones sobre el conocimiento lingüístico declarado por los escolares catalanes al final de la educación secundaria obligatoria

Abstract

At the end of 2008, the Ceneralitat of Catalonia made to known the results of a new study. These data have re-opened the eternal debate about the linguistic competences of the Catalan students. Using this document, as a starting point, this paper pursues an analysis of the most outstanding information from the Study in relation to the stated linguistic abilities, emphasizing some of the most important challenges for the Educational System: to improve the levels of knowledge in Catalan, Spanish and foreign languages, and the need to look for a further equity among native and immigrant schoolchildren in the access to the languages of the school.