出版社：Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research
摘要：Bilingualism, and more recently plurilingualism, is attracting
considerable attention due to the increasing influx of people with different
ethnolinguistic background to Western societies as well as the fact that we live in
a globalised world. This study presents the results of a large-scale survey
administered to 1,727 students enrolled in Greek schools in the islands of Rhodes
and Symi during the scholastic year 2002-2003. Using an adapted version of
Baker¡¯s questionnaire (see Baker, 2001), the study attempted to investigate
students¡¯ attitudes toward bilingualism. The results indicate a general positive
attitude toward bilingualism. Most of the students were aware of the fact that
knowing more than one language would be useful in their adult life, particularly
in view of the profes sional and economic rewards that this br ings in an
increasingly globalised world. It was however found that the subjects of the study
were not so positively disposed toward bilingualism as a societal phenomenon.
The study findings are discussed in relation to language education policy in
Greece.
