The Britannica Review of Foreign Language Education

Evaluative reactions of adolescents toward speakers of standard English and Mexican American accented English.

“…Incorporating two variables related to functional separation, Carranza and Ryan (1975) investigated evaluative reactions of bilingual Anglo and Mexican American adolescents toward male speakers of standard English and standard Spanish. Two contexts, home and school, were selected as those which are functionally most separate for the bilingual Mexican American adolescent; these contexts correspond to the two main potentially conflicting value clusters for the Mexican American (Ulibarri, 1968). Spanish, the language of the home domain, is taken to be the low language reflecting solidarity values, while English, the language of the school, is taken to be the high language reflecting status values.…”