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School is one of the basic pillars of the linguistic normalization process, and teachers play a fundamental role in encouraging this task. Therefore, teacher training, and more particularly its first stages, is a basic area of analysis. It is of great interest to study Teacher Training College students, the teachers of a not so distant tomorrow, regarding their knowledge and use of the language, their linguistic attitudes and rules of usage and, most specifically, their expectations concerning professional use of Catalan. This paper analyzes these issues from the point of view of the Alacant province area, by showing the surveys carried out during the academic years 1993-94, 1994-95 and 1995-96 among the students of the Escola Universitària de Formació del Professorat (Teacher Training College) at the University of Alacant. An analysis of the results, which is moderately optimistic, points out a few structural faults in the Valencian educational system and proposes a number of priority measures.

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Carme Miquel reflect upons the role of schools and observes the contradiction between most of the values and attitudes prevailing in present society and those that schools try to transmit. In this context, the author analyzes also the linguistic issue: it is at school where advances in linguistic normalization are most noticeable. She studies the function of Valencian schools (i.e. schools in Catalan) and the role played by the citizens’ movement represented by Escola Valenciana. Federació d'Associacions per la Llengua within the social and educational environment and regarding linguistic normalization.

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Aquest estudi proporciona una visió panoràmica de les obres i els articles publicats als països de parla alemanya sobre qüestions de sociolingüística catalana. Recull, principalment, treballs dels últims vint anys i n’ofereix una classificació seguint els corrents d’investigació més importants de la sociolingüística moderna. L’objectiu de l’article és doble: resumir la gran quantitat d’obres sociolingüístiques i donar-les a conèixer a un públic catalanoparlant i, alhora, avaluar també qualitativament els treballs existents.