The purpose of this sociolinguistic study is to examine language beliefs, emotions, and practices of twenty bi/multilingual fourth-grade children of immigrants in monolingual U.S. schools in relation to societal language ideologies. This qualitative multiple case study included individual semi-structured interviews with bi/multilingual children…

While the role of parental ideologies on children's bi/multilingual development and the role of children's beliefs about multilingualism are well-documented, less work examines how parental and student ideologies are enacted through talk. That is, how do students interpret what their family caregivers tell them about bi/multilingualism, and how do…

This article examines the visibility of an African language, isiZulu, in the public domain of education in South Africa. It explores synergies and disjunctures in language use and exposure for children across the continuum from home to ECD centre and early primary school, and how they affect children's competence in reading in two languages by…

In the present study (Schwarzl, Lena. 2020. "Ein mehrperspektivischer Blick in das Translanguaging-Klassenzimmer -- selbstbezogene Überzeugungen und Klassenklima im Fokus" [A Multi-Perspective Look into the Translanguaging Classroom - Focusing on Self-Centered Beliefs and Classroom Climate]. Doctoral diss., University of Vienna.…