French versus English: A sociolinguistic study of Moroccans’ foreign language attitudinal tendencies

Mahmoud Seddik
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The complexity of the Moroccan language landscape sparks off a power struggle between languages. The focus in this chapter is on the apparent French/English language contest over supremacy. Here comes the current investigation that aims at gauging Moroccan’s perceptions of French and English through a language questionnaire. Responses were subjected to statistical analyses to support or reject the hypothesis that gender, age and language proficiency affect Moroccans’ evaluations of French and English. The study reveals that Moroccans’ attitudes towards English are significantly more favorable than those towards the French language. Age, but not gender, has turned out to have a statistically significant difference in the overall evaluation of French and English. These evaluations have also been shown to correlate with the respondents’ French and English language proficiency. The result of this study is an indication that Moroccans’ attitudes toward French and English are undergoing a change from a conventional preference for French to a recent favor of English whose phenomenal growth globally may have affected language attitudes locally.
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法语与英语:摩洛哥人外语态度倾向的社会语言学研究
摩洛哥语言景观的复杂性引发了语言之间的权力斗争。本章的重点是明显的法语/英语争夺霸权。以下是目前的调查,旨在通过语言问卷来衡量摩洛哥人对法语和英语的看法。对答复进行了统计分析,以支持或拒绝性别、年龄和语言熟练程度影响摩洛哥人对法语和英语评价的假设。研究表明,摩洛哥人对英语的态度明显比对法语的态度好。事实证明,年龄(而非性别)在法语和英语的整体评价中存在统计学上的显著差异。这些评估也被证明与受访者的法语和英语水平相关。这项研究的结果表明,摩洛哥人对法语和英语的态度正在发生变化,从传统的对法语的偏爱转变为最近对英语的偏爱,而英语在全球范围内的惊人增长可能影响了当地的语言态度。
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