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Velazquez, Isabel – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2013
This article reports the results of a social network analysis (SNA) performed on the mother's primary network of interaction in 15 Mexican American families in the city of El Paso, Texas, the neighbourhood of La Villita, in Chicago, and the city of Lincoln, Nebraska. The goal of this study was to examine potential opportunities for Spanish use by…
Descriptors: Mothers, Socialization, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Pavlenko, Aneta – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2004
The goal of this paper is to discuss the role of emotion-related factors in language choice in bi- and multilingual families. Most of the time, factors other than emotions govern language choice and use in such families, among them language dominance, social context and linguistic competence of the interlocutors. However, quantitative and…
Descriptors: Linguistic Competence, Language Dominance, Multilingualism, Social Environment