The study of language learning in multilingual education: students’ perceptions of their language learning experience in Basque, Spanish and English
International Journal of Multilingualism 19(1) : 124-141 (2020)
Abstract
This paper focuses on teaching techniques for language learning as
related to student satisfaction on multilingual compulsory
education in the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC), where
Basque and Spanish are official languages and English is taught as
a foreign language. Using a multilingual approach, the paper
discusses similarities and differences between the relationships
found for the teaching techniques and the satisfaction levels in
the three languages (Basque, Spanish and English). The results of
the T-test analysis show significant differences between the three
languages in the use of teaching techniques and levels of
satisfaction. Additionally, the patterns of relationship between the
teaching techniques and the language learning satisfaction levels
show some weak relationship in the three languages, being
learner-centred teaching techniques related to satisfaction levels.
Results are explained according to some assumptions in language
acquisition, and related to the context of the study. Finally, we
discuss some opportunities for language teaching in multilingual
contexts with a minority language.