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Hiratsuka, Akiko; Pennycook, Alastair – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2020
Drawing on data from a longitudinal linguistic ethnographic study of a trilingual (English, Japanese, Spanish) family in Australia, this paper suggests that rather than looking at their language use in terms of family language policy, better insights can be gained by exploring the translingual family repertoire. This repertoire is a central…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Family Environment
Mejía, Glenda – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
This article discusses the usage of the Spanish language by Hispanic mothers with their children, their views on language maintenance and culture within their bilingual families and their opinions on the benefits of bilingualism in a globalised world. Drawing upon detailed case studies of 16 native Spanish-speaking mothers married to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Spanish Speaking, Immigrants, Case Studies

Gibbons, John; Lascar, Elizabeth – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1998
To discover the extent to which academic register develops in language-minority children, it is important to describe the academic register of the minority language and then to develop instruments to measure its development. This article looks at the means that were developed to accomplish these two tasks of description and instrument development…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Evaluation Methods, Foreign Countries

Smolicz, J. J. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
Until 1947, Australia was considered one of the most monolingual countries in the world. However, now there are more than a million bilingual Australians who regularly use a language other than English when talking with friends and families, or on religious or social occasions. (SL)
Descriptors: Arabic, Bilingualism, Chinese, Cultural Awareness