Social representation of languages among primary education pupils in Catalonia

In our globalized society, the mastery of languages is everyday becoming more indispensable to inhabit the world. However, not all the languages are perceived under the same conception. The present article intends to analyze the social representation of English and other languages between primary education pupils in Catalonia. For this reason, a qualitative case study will be developed among 7 and 8 year old pupils: all of them, at least, bilinguals. The method, which will include interviews, will be the biographical method. Discussions and interviews will be all recorded for further study. After, specific cases will be analyzed in order to obtain results. These results showed that social representations are essential: plurilingual students at early stages do not show dislike for any language although they do show preference for certain ones, in accordance with their closest environment