Bilingüismo e inmigración: actitudes lingüísticas y dificultades de aprendizaje en alumnos hispanohablantes

Bilingualism and immigration: language attitudes and learning difficulties in heritage Spanish speaking students. This paper aims to analyze the types of errors in reading and writing in 110 Italian monolingual and bilingual students (Italian / Spanish) in order to discriminate the specific difficulties in acquiring the skills of literacy and how those difficulties are related with linguistic attitudes. For data collection, it has been provided a questionnaire and a battery of standardized tests in six courses of 4th and 5th grade of primary school, located in an area of the city of Genova where a large number of people of Latin American origin live.