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Sevinç, Yesim; Backus, Ad – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
By exploring two novel concepts, "heritage language anxiety" (HLA) and "majority language anxiety" (MLA), this study draws attention to the hitherto neglected topic of "language anxiety" in immigrant and minority contexts. Based on semi-structured interviews with three generations of Turkish immigrants in the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Anxiety, Immigrants, Minority Groups
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Sevinç, Yesim – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper addresses language anxiety and monolingual mindsets not only as they relate to family language use, but also to divergent social, cultural, and emotional domains of family language policy (FLP) decisions. It explores associations between language practices within the family, beliefs about multilingualism and language ability (language…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Multilingualism, Monolingualism