Relatore Chiar mo Prof. Graziano Serragiotto Correlatore

8.2. Pupils 
This section presents the results of the pupil questionnaire clustered according to the purpose 
of the questions. 
8.2.1. 
Pupils’ personal information 
All the pupils, with a very small number of exceptions, have been studying English since their 
1st year in primary school. About one third of the pupils speak at least one language other than Italian 
in their household (Table 7).
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About one third of these pupils speak another Romance language 
(including French, Romanian, Moldavian, Spanish and Portuguese); about 18% speak a Slavic 
language (including Serbian, Czech, Bosnian and Russian); 11% speak a Germanic language 
(including English and German); 11% speak Chinese; 9,6% speak an African non-semitic language 
(including Bissa); about 8% speak Filipino; about 8% speak Arabic; about 8% speak an Indic 
language (including Urdu, Bengali and Romani); and one pupil speaks Albanian (Graph 56). 
Languages spoken in the 
household 
n. of pupils 
% 
At least a foreign language 
73 
32,2% 
Only Italian 
154 
67,8% 
Table 7: Languages spoken in the household by the pupils who participated in the survey 
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Speaking an Italian dialect at home was considered to be speaking Italian. 

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Graph 56: Foreign languages spoken by the pupils who speak at least one language other than 
Italian in the household 
8.2.2. 
Pupils’ opinions and perceptions about English 
The majority of the pupils (74%) like English very much, and only 1,8% of the children 
claimed not to like the language (Graph 57). It was noticed that the children who speak at least one 
language other than Italian in their household showed a higher tendency to claim that they like the 
English language very much (Graph 58). Moreover, when comparing the results according to the 
gender of the pupils, it was noticed that the girls generally also showed a higher tendency to like 
English very much, and none of them declared not to like the language. Furthermore, when comparing 
the results according to the year level of the pupils, it was also noticed that it seems like the higher 
the year level of the pupils, the slightly higher the tendency to like the English language very much, 
but in this case the difference is almost irrelevant (Graph 60). 
32,9%
17,8%
11,0% 11,0%
9,6%
8,2%
8,2%
8,2%
1,4%
Foreign languages spoken in the household
Romance languages
Slavic languages
Germanic languages
Chinese
African (non-semitic) languages
Filipino
Arabic
Indic languages
Albanian

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Graph 57: Q1 - the results as percentage 
Graph 58: Q1 - the results as percentage according to the languages spoken by the pupils in the 
household 
74,0%
24,2%
1,8%
Q1: Do you like the English language?
Yes, very much
Somewhat
No, not at all
87,7%
11,0%
1,4%
67,5%
30,5%
1,9%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Yes, very much
Somewhat
No, not at all
Q1: Do you like the English language?
Pupils who speak a foreign language in the household
Pupils who speak only Italian in the household

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Graph 59: Q1 - the results as percentage according to the gender of the pupils