Bottom-up Actors’ Attitudes Towards Languages At The Algerian Primary Educational Level: A Case Study

Résumé: It is widely acknowledged that Arabization is considered as one of the major reforms tackled since independence. Despite the promotion of Arabic, the country exhibits a rich linguistic diversity through the existence of the mother tongues such as: Tamazight. This paper investigates primary school educationalists’ attitudes towards the language in education policies undertaken and whether there is readiness to future reforms. To reach that, we opted for a semi-structured interview with 3 headmasters and 6 teachers from 3 different primary schools in Maghnia. The main findings reveal that participants hold positive attitudes towards Arabic meanwhile they hope for a solid and effective Arabization policy. In addition, any initiative to incorporate Tamazight is perceived to be far-fetched due to several cultural and linguistic reasons.

Publié dans la revue: مجلة الحقوق والعلوم الانسانية