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The Effect of Family Composition on Family Language Policy of Turkish Heritage Speakers in Flanders/Belgium
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Altinkamis, Feyza – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study explores the effect of different family compositions formed as a result of marriage patterns in today's Turkish immigrant community in Flanders on family language policies. Based on in-depth interviews with 26 families, grouped in three different family compositions (mixed-marriages, local intra-ethnic marriages and marriages through…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Family Environment, Marriage, Native Language
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
Unpacking Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Students' Home Languages: What Matters in Initial Teacher Education?
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Hakan Dursun; Orhan Agirdag; Ellen Claes – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This paper presents findings from a quantitative investigation of preservice teachers' beliefs about using students' home languages as resources in educational environments. The study looked into the relationships between preservice teachers' professional learning opportunities and their home language beliefs, which had been mostly ignored in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Beliefs, Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
Maintaining One Language While Learning Another: Moroccan Children in Belgium
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Dekeyser, Graziela; Stevens, Gillian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Whether children in migrant households maintain proficiency in their heritage language (HL) may affect their attachment to their cultural heritage, while the extent to which they acquire proficiency in the new language of their destination strongly conditions their success in the country's educational and occupational institutions. In this paper,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Indo European Languages, Cultural Background, Language Proficiency
Acculturation Profiles of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in Belgium and Their Socio-Economic Adaptation
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Grigoryev, Dmitry; van de Vijver, Fons – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This article presents the results of a study on the relationship of acculturation profiles of Russian-speaking immigrants in Belgium, the duration of their stay, and their socio-economic adaptation. The data came from a socio-psychological survey of 132 Russian-speaking immigrants in Belgium (first generation) and were processed using latent…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Profiles, Immigrants, Russian
School as a Socialising and Corrective Force in Inter-Ethnic Urban Relations.
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Leman, Johan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1997
Discusses a project in the Flemish Brussels, Belgium educational community that seeks to provide a bicultural and trilingual curriculum that includes the language and culture of allocthonous children. Successful transfer to secondary education is discussed as is the importance of additive mother-tongue education and involving parents in what goes…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Dutch, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education