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Kostoulas, Achilleas; Motsiou, Eleni – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
This paper reports on an exploratory qualitative investigation of the discourses of plurilingual children's parents, with a view to developing an understanding of their family language policy. Drawing loosely on Spolsky [2004. "Language Policy." Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], family language policy was conceptualised as having…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Usage, Multilingualism, Language Attitudes
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Gogonas, Nikos; Maligkoudi, Christina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
Complementary schools are an important research area of Second Language Acquisition study, involving issues of identity, linguistic socialization, second language acquisition, linguistic hegemony, etc. This article looks at the Czech Complementary School in Thessaloniki, whose main purpose is the transmission of the Czech language and culture to…
Descriptors: Mothers, Language Attitudes, Slavic Languages, Parent Child Relationship
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Gkaintartzi, Anastasia; Chatzidaki, Aspasia; Tsokalidou, Roula – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
This article examines views of Albanian immigrant parents regarding home-language maintenance in Greece. It aims to reveal language ideologies in relation to broader ideologies about schooling and education. Following a qualitative interpretative approach, we conducted semi-structured individual and group interviews with 19 parents of bilingual…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Native Language, Language Maintenance, Foreign Countries
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Gogonas, Nikos; Michail, Domna – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2015
The focus of this paper is on the relationship between Albanian speakers' ethnolinguistic vitality (EV) perceptions and their language maintenance, language use and choice patterns. A subjective EV questionnaire, and a language usage questionnaire capturing domain-specific language use was completed by 200 Albanian immigrants of first and second…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Correlation, Language Maintenance, Questionnaires
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Griva, Eleni; Kiliari, Angeliki; Stamou, Anastasia G. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
In this paper, we present a synthesis of a series of studies, carried out by our research groups, from the Greek educational context on teachers' and immigrant students' views on issues of bilingual acquisition and of heritage language learning and teaching. Albeit including heterogeneous samples and employing quantitative and qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language, Language Usage, Bilingualism
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Chatzidaki, Aspassia; Maligkoudi, Christina – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2013
This article reports on an investigation of family language policies among 37 Albanian immigrant families in Northern Greece within the framework of Spolsky's language policy model. Data collection was based on semi-directed interviews with parents which were analysed using both content and discourse analysis. According to our findings, three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Second Language Learning, Language Maintenance