The two-month period granted by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) to the Generalitat to apply a minimum of 25% in Catalan classrooms is already running, although the Catalan administration itself seems to want to win the battle of ideas.

This follows from the results of the Generalitat's Center for Opinion Studies (CEO) in a survey on the use of Catalan and Spanish in society, including schools

The study indicates that 76% of Catalans agree with the defense of the linguistic immersion model, the majority voting for pro-independence or 'common' parties, compared to 24% who disagree, and that they would be voting for formations like PP, Vox or Citizens mainly.

In this sense, 95% of people who define themselves as Catalan speakers, 78% of bilinguals and 88% of speakers of other languages ​​agree with the defense of immersion while Spanish speakers are divided in half between those who they are for or against the educational model that focuses on Catalan as the only vehicular language.

That is why the TSJC recalled that Spanish must also be.

58% of those surveyed see the use of Catalan in teaching as adequate, while 22% consider it excessive and 20% insufficient.

They were also asked about the educational system and 57% prefer a model based on skills and project work, compared to 27% who bet on the transmission of knowledge and memorization and the rest do not know.

The preference for the school model also varies depending on the ideological identification: among people on the left, 79% prefer the competency model and 21% the transmission model;

while 52% of the people who consider themselves to be on the right bet on competition and 48% on transmission.

51% of Catalans agree with a school financing model based on compensating schools that serve students with a lower socioeconomic profile, compared to 49% who defend homogeneous financing.

Instead, the wager on compensation drops to 19% if asked about applying it to schools with the highest percentage of immigrants.

The survey was carried out on 1,992 residents of Catalonia of Spanish nationality over 16 years of age.

Catalan threatened

The survey by the Center d'Estudis d'Opinió (CEO) has also questioned the social use of Catalan and Spanish and concludes that 68% of Catalan speakers consider that it is a threatened language compared to 22% of Spanish speakers.

However, 58% of those who have Spanish as their habitual language believe that the future of Catalan is guaranteed, compared to 22% of Catalan speakers who consider it so.

Among those surveyed who claimed to have both languages ​​as their own, 46% considered that Catalan has a guaranteed future, and 38% confirmed that it is threatened.

78% of Catalan speakers have the perception that the situation of Catalan has worsened in recent years, compared to 3% who believe it has improved and 17% who say it is the same.

On the other hand, among Spanish speakers, 48% believe that Catalan is the same, 29% see it as worse and 13% as better;

and people with both languages ​​as their own believe, in 10%, that it has improved, and in 43% both that it is the same and that it has worsened.

59% of Catalan speakers switch to Spanish when they meet a Spanish speaker;

on the other hand, 41% of Spanish speakers switch to Catalan in the opposite situation.

The majority of Spanish-speakers believe that responding in Catalan to someone who speaks in Spanish is rude, while half of Catalan-speakers consider the opposite to be disrespectful.

The survey indicates that the use of Catalan is insufficient on digital platforms and the majority agree with the language policy measures in the areas of labeling (67%), promotional campaigns (72%), quotas for platforms (59 %) and that Catalan is a requirement for public workers (72%).

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