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Seals, Corinne A.; Beliaeva, Natalia – Language Policy, 2023
The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call "Aspirational FLP"--when the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Language Usage, Native Language
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Bose, Priyanka; Gao, Xuesong; Starfield, Sue; Sun, Shuting; Ramdani, Junjun Muhamad – Language Policy, 2023
Family language policy (FLP) is increasingly recognised as a distinct domain of language policy concerned with the family as an arena of language policy formulation and implementation. While FLP is a relatively new research area, its conceptualisation of family and language practice requires re-examination due to social changes and technological…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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David Shuang Song – Language Policy, 2024
Through ethnographic fieldwork and sociological theory drawing from French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this article describes possibilities and restrictions for Chinese language education for Chinese-diasporic youth in the San Francisco area, 50 years after "Lau v. Nichols." I examine four sites of this education, all of which serve…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction, Second Language Instruction
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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
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Lin, Man-Chiu Amay – Language Policy, 2019
This study dissects a cross-border linguistic dilemma and critiques the missed opportunities for linguistic diversity in Taiwan. Past studies have shown that immigrant mothers from Southeast Asia are discouraged from transmitting the cultures and languages of their home countries to their children, yet few voices have been heard from the mothers…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Power Structure, Foreign Countries, Criticism