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Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Parents' assessment of children's development in the first and the second language is an essential part of their family language policy (FLP) and an important component of parent-child communication. This paper presents a pilot study focused on Russian-speaking immigrant parents' assessment of their children's language knowledge in Russian as a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Preschool Education, Second Language Learning
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Schwartz, Mila – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
The family unit and home domain have been and remain important in heritage language maintenance efforts. There are complex relationships between parental language attitudes, their application in everyday language management activities and the children's knowledge of home language vocabulary. The present large-scale study examined the family policy…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Jews, Language Attitudes