RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Denman, Jenny A1 van Schooten, Erik A1 de Graaff, Rick YR 2018 T1 Attitudinal factors and the intention to learn English in pre-vocational secondary bilingual and mainstream education* JF Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics VO 7 IS 2 SP 203 OP 226 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/dujal.18005.den PB John Benjamins SN 2211-7245, AB Abstract

The effect of bilingual education (BE) on the attitude towards learning English of pupils in the first three years of pre-vocational secondary education in the Netherlands (n = 488) was investigated. Contrary to several other BE/CLIL studies, in the present study pupils choosing for a bilingual stream are not preselected based on their attitude or motivation. Attitude was measured using the Model of Planned Behavior (MPB). The best-fitting attitude model was one in which the perceived importance of learning English was a direct predictor of the Intention to make an effort, and not mediated by Affect. At the start of BE in year 1 (age 12), attitudinal differences between bilingual and mainstream pupils were non-significant, but after one or more years of a bilingual program, BE pupils scored significantly higher on four of the five MPB attitudinal constructs. BE appears to positively influence the attitude towards learning English of junior vocational students., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/dujal.18005.den