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Erin Quirk; Natasha Hadeed; Krista Byers-Heinlein – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
Family language strategies are approaches that parents adopt for language use with their multilingual children. In bilingual contexts, these strategies influence children's language exposure and development (MacLeod et al., 2022). In the more complex context of trilingualism, how families settle on strategies and their relationship with exposure…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Multilingualism, Language Usage, Second Language Learning
Youngjoo Seo – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2025
Despite the unique status of English as a super-power among foreign languages in Korea, and researchers' increasing interest in Korean parents' zeal for achieving their children's early bilingualism and willingness to invest heavily in private English education outside of school, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of parental…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Parent Child Relationship, Bilingualism
Rubino, Antonia – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
In this article I adopt a family language policy approach and a diachronic perspective to explore how the dialect-Italian dynamics unfolds differently within different cohorts of Italian migrants due to the hierarchical position of the two heritage languages. I highlight three main issues that emerge across time in the language policies in the…
Descriptors: Italian, Language Usage, Family Relationship, Immigrants
Gülin Dagdeviren-Kirmizi; Kayhan Inan – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
In this study, the relationship between the family language practice and the level of linguistic (in)security of adolescent Gagauz speakers is examined in the context of an endangered language. To this end, a language-use questionnaire and linguistic insecurity scale were administered to 674 participants. The questionnaire included questions…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Maintenance, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Greer, Tim; Wagner, Johannes – Second Language Research, 2023
Study abroad homestays are generally assumed to provide visitors with opportunities to learn language 'in the wild' by participating in the host family's everyday life. Ultimately such participation is accomplished via individual episodes of interaction as the visitor is socialized into the family's mundane routines and rituals. Building on…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Family Environment, Second Language Learning, Socialization
Hakyoon Lee; Myoung Eun Pang – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Informed by Family Language Policy (FLP) and Community of Practice (CoP) as the main theoretical frameworks, this study explores the characteristics of language practices at the home of a Korean-English bilingual family. In particular, this study examines how a mother creates educational discourse at home and promotes the construction of knowledge…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Korean, Native Language
Fei Tang; Raees Calafato – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
This article presents the findings from a study that explored how the language practices and management to which 156 students from universities in China reported being exposed at home, alongside their language beliefs, use of their entire linguistic repertoire when reading, listening, speaking, and writing at university, and emotions related to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Environment, Multilingualism, Foreign Countries
Park, Eun Kyong; Vass, Gregory; Davison, Chris – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2022
The influential role of parents has long been acknowledged as a key contributor to children's bilingual development. Parents' home-based informal efforts to foster children's bilingual abilities are described as family language policies (FLPs). The important connection between bilingualism and FLP has been established, but to date there are few…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Immigrants, Bilingualism
Tairan Qiu – Reading Research Quarterly, 2025
Using transnational literacies as the theoretical framework, this qualitative case study explores the transnational language and literacy practices of one female China-U.S. transnational adolescent, Meiyi, and her family. The data corpus includes critical ethnographic data generated over 3 years. Through data generation and analysis guided by…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Language Usage, Literacy, Chinese
Mirvahedi, Seyed Hadi; Hosseini, Mona – Language Policy, 2023
In this study, we investigate family language policy in a transnational family through a collaborative autoethnography. Following the theoretical underpinnings of family language policy (Spolsky in J Multiling Multicult Dev 31:3-11, 2012), we present parental language beliefs, management, and practices in retrospect to shine a light on the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency
Tonioli, Valeria – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2022
The aim of the paper is to present the results of a research project called 'Tell Me', conducted from October 2018 to March 2020. The project focused on Bengali children living in Venice, Italy, and aimed to describe (1) children's languages in the home environment and at school; (2) the quality and quantity of input they receive in every language…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Italian, Family Relationship, Language Usage
Kusters, Annelies; De Meulder, Maartje; Napier, Jemina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Most FLP research focuses on intrafamily communication (1FLP) and how this is impacted by larger contexts. But what happens when different multilingual families interact intensively on a daily basis? This article analyses language use during a holiday in India in and between four deaf-hearing befriended families, and how this evolved over the…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Travel, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Babalwayashe Molate; Carolyn McKinney – Journal of Multilingual Theories and Practices, 2023
Multilingualism as a consequence of transnational mobility and migration is prominent in studies of language socialization and family multilingualism in the Global North. While mobility within and between the various regions in South Africa sustains multilingualism and aligns with the global dynamic of mobility, Indigenous multilingualism is…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, African Languages, Language Usage
Seo, Youngjoo – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
As one of the solutions to the economic stratification of English education opportunities and resulting in inequalities, there is a newly emerging global trend of bilingual parenting in Korea called 'maternal English education ("Eommapyo yeong-eo")'. The purpose of this study is to examine challenges of Korean parents in practicing…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Family Relationship, Language Usage, Native Language
Sáenz-Hernández, Isabel; Lapresta-Rey, Cecilio; Petreñas, Cristina; Ianos, Maria Adelina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This study explores integration and linguistic acculturation in Catalonia (Spain), a multilingual setting where a state and a regional language coexist with those of immigration. Using qualitative content analysis, we examined the linguistic acculturation profiles of 13 high-school students of immigrant background and the linguistic acculturation…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Language Minorities