Evidence item

A separate western-Catalonia study found interethnic contact improved immigrants’ attitudes toward natives’ languages, a host-language adoption-related outcome. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: People in contact, languages in contact. A multi-group analysis of the effects of interethnic contact on acculturation attitudes · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:f3867b38aac25b3764f6c60db6568983243a59885c74d530a18dcec721adfef3

The results obtained show a clear positive impact of interethnic contact on the integrative acculturation of immigrants: it enhances natives’ support for immigrants’ language maintenance, while also improving immigrants’ attitudes towards the natives’ languages (with no subtractive language effect).