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What Prompts Early Childhood Professionals to Proffer Advice to Multilingual Families? Investigating the Association between Language Policy and Perceived Self-Efficacy
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Victoria Van Oss; Esli Struys; Piet Van Avermaet; Wendelien Vantieghem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Early childhood professionals can act as catalysts in encouraging home language maintenance in multilingual families. However, there is a dearth of research on whether these professionals advise parents to speak their home language(s) to their offspring, and furthermore, little is known about what prompts professionals to proffer language advice.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
Turkish Heritage Families in Sweden: Language Practices and Family Language Policy
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Bohnacker, Ute – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper explores family language policy in Turkish-speaking families in Sweden. Questionnaires were administered to the parents of 105 Turkish/Swedish children (age 4-7), targeting family language practices (including parent-parent, parent-child, child-parent, child-and-sibling conversation and language-fostering activities such as joint book…
Descriptors: Turkish, Swedish, Language Usage, Family Relationship