Leadership and Values in Language Education - Al Akhawayn ...

80Proceedings of the 27 th MATE Annual Conference2. Media and Norms3.Figure7 below depicts the students’ responses to the influence of media contenton their present norms as well as on their predictions of future effects.4,24,03,83,63,4Figure 7: YoungMoroccanCitizens’Responses to theMedia/NormsInteractionsMean3,2media teach norms youth present normsmedia globalise norm youth future normsMention should be made first to the fact that the vertical line of the graphrepresents mean scores of the subjects’ responses to the statements in thequestionnaire, the latter oscillating from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (stronglyagree). In the figure above the means fluctuate between 3.2 and 4. This meansthat the lowest response to the various effects of media content on the norms ofyounger generations today ranges from uncertainty (level 3 on the graph) to totalagreement; no single subject disagreed on the effects of media content on theiradoption of norms from mass media, their effect on present norms, theirglobalization, and continuity of such effects into the future. For constraints ofspace, see questionnaire for more details about the statements in this aspect (Thefirst statement is represented to the left of the graph).3. Media Content and Values:Equally important in the investigation of socialization is the values aspect. Theyounger subjects were given four statements about the multifaceted interactionbetween media and their values. Figure8 below summarizes their responses.