“How would you prefer education to be regarding languages?” Mexican students’ language attitudes

Abstract

This research presents the results of a study on language attitudes of Mexican university stu-dents. This work was carried out through the design and implementation of a sociolinguistic questionnaire, which was applied to a sample of students from the Autonomous University of Chapingo (UACh), located in the city of Texcoco de Mora in the state of Mexico. This is an interesting institution due to its agricultural orientation, what makes students relevant informants owing to their lack of specific sociolinguistic training, and because of the great ethnic diversity of the abovementioned university.The  main  objective  of  this  work  is  to  explore  Mexican  students’  language  attitudes  towards the indigenous language speakers, including the attitudes of the students that iden-tify themselves as indigenous regarding their endogroup. We also want to verify if there are significant differences according to the ethnic category of the informant.