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Illinois Wesleyan UniversityDigital Commons @ IWUJohn Wesley Powell Student ResearchConference 2011, 22nd Annual JWP ConferenceApr 9th, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AMLanguage Choice of High School Students inCentral IllinoisJaclyn MorrisonIllinois Wesleyan UniversityChristina Isabelli, Faculty AdvisorIllinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprcPart of the Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature CommonsThis Event is brought to you for free and open access by The Ames Library, the Andrew W. Mellon Center for Curricular and FacultyDevelopment, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Commons @ IWU bythe faculty at Illinois Wesleyan University. For more information, please contact digitalcommons@iwu.edu.©Copyright is owned by the author of this document.Jaclyn Morrison and Christina Isabelli, Faculty Advisor, "Language Choice of High School Students in Central Illinois"(April 9, 2011). John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference. Paper 2.http://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/jwprc/2011/oralpres4/2THE JOHN WESLEY POWELL STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE APRIL 201 1 Oral Presentation 04.2 LANGUAGE CHOICE OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN CENTRAL ILLINOIS Jaclyn Morrison and Christina Isabelli* Hispanic Studies Department, Illinois Wesleyan University Numerous studies have investigated the maintenance and loss of the Spanish language in metropolitan cities with a large Hispanic population. Few stndies of this type have been conducted in smaller cities with a high prevalence of Spanish speakers. This stndy will explore the language use among Spanish-speaking high school stndents in BloomingtonINormal, Illinois. The data will be collected via a questionnaire similar to the one used in Stone (1987) with minor changes to accommodate the population. The goal of this study is to gain an understanding of the language usage, domains of usage, and attitndes toward English and Spanish among high school stndents in the community. A description of the use of English and Spanish among Spanish­speaking students may be an important factor in the maintenance or loss of Spanish in Bloomington. Furthermore, the conclusions of this stndy may provide ideas about the attitndes that these stndents preserve about these two languages. Stone, Gregory. (1987). Language choice among Mexican-American high-school stndents in Saint Paul, Minnesota: Some preliminary fmdings. In J. Matluck, T. Morgan, 1. Lee, & B. VanPatten (Eds.), Language and language use: Studies in Spanish (pp. 147-159). Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 

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