Communicative competence and the facilitating and perturbing factors in the socialisation of immigrant students

This work analyses the communicative competence and the factors that facilitate and perturb the socialisation of immigrant students in primary education. It provides greater knowledge concerning the relationship between the immigrant student's social and linguistic competence. It also analyses...

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Published in:Children and youth services review 2013-05, Vol.35 (5), p.865-870
Main Authors: Moreno-Manso, Juan Manuel, Godoy-Merino, Ma José, Suárez-Muñoz, Ángel, García-Baamonde, Ma Elena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communication
Immigrants
Language
Linguistic competence
Social adaptation
Socialisation
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Summary:This work analyses the communicative competence and the factors that facilitate and perturb the socialisation of immigrant students in primary education. It provides greater knowledge concerning the relationship between the immigrant student's social and linguistic competence. It also analyses the presence of difficulties in the different language components (morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics). The sample is made up of a total of 326 immigrant students between 6 and 12years of age, attending 10 different schools. The study demonstrates that immigrant students possess a low level of linguistic dominion. All the linguistic components analysed are affected, although greater difficulties are evident in morphology and syntax than in semantics and pragmatics. The relationship between linguistic competence and the factors that facilitate and perturb socialisation is underlined. This work concludes that there is a significant relation between semantics and pragmatics and several socialisation factors (leadership, aggressiveness–stubbornness and anxiety–shyness). The educational centres should be aware of the complicated learning process that immigrant students have to go through. ► This research analyses the communicative competence of immigrant students. ► Immigrant students possess a low level of linguistic dominion. ► Greater difficulties in morphology and syntax than in semantics and pragmatics ► Communicative difficulties are an obstacle to social adaptation. ► There is a significant relation between semantics and pragmatics and socialisation.
ISSN:0190-7409
1873-7765
DOI:10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.02.009