Morocco, a multilingual country with historical and geo-political legacies, has opened a hot debate on languages recently. Within this debate, this article investigates spontaneous comments in social media on languages in Morocco, especially adopting English as a first foreign language. It aims to bring this topic to the surface and thus discuss it in the light of research on language attitudes and language awareness. To do so, it analyses the reactions to texts about the declarations by the Minister of Higher Education shared in social networks and sites. The data consisting of 2,018 comments is classified according to 12 frequent patterns whose frequencies are calculated. The findings show that most of Moroccans have positive attitudes towards English while some show opposing reactions towards French. These participants hold ambivalent opinions about the rest of languages used in Morocco; however, they tend to insist on Morocco having a clear language policy which, seemingly, prioritises the mother tongues, Arabic and Amazigh. The discussions show that some investigated reactions are mitigated as they may be illusionary.

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摩洛哥英语的现状：社交媒体自发辩论的教训

摩洛哥，一个拥有历史和地缘政治遗产的多语言国家，最近掀起了一场关于语言的热议。在这场辩论中，本文调查了社交媒体上关于摩洛哥语言的自发评论，特别是采用英语作为第一外语。它旨在将这个话题浮出水面，从而根据对语言态度和语言意识的研究来讨论它。为此，它分析了对社交网络和网站上共享的高等教育部长声明的文本的反应。由 2,018 条评论组成的数据按照 12 种频繁模式进行分类，其频率被计算出来。调查结果表明，大多数摩洛哥人对英语持积极态度，而有些人则对法语表现出相反的反应。这些参与者对摩洛哥使用的其他语言持有矛盾的意见；然而，他们倾向于坚持摩洛哥有一个明确的语言政策，似乎优先考虑母语、阿拉伯语和阿马齐格语。讨论表明，一些被调查的反应被减轻了，因为它们可能是错觉的。