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Ling Wang; Kendall King – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Governmental language policies in China have varied across recent decades, including the intensive promotion of Mandarin as a language of unification and public championing of regional varieties. Concomitantly, increasing urbanisation, regional migration, and cross-linguistic marriage have led to greater use of Mandarin in private domains. Given…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese, Parent Attitudes
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
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
Huiling Cui; Yongyan Zheng – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
This study aims to explore how ethnic identity, linguistic ideology, and family capital work in interaction in shaping Korean-Chinese migrant families' multilingual planning against the backdrop of China's rapid urbanisation and internal migration. A model of investment (Darvin and Norton [2015]. "Identity and a Model of Investment in Applied…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Multilingualism, Migrants
Xinyi Zhang; Carrie Lau – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The present study aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire assessing parents' beliefs about, and attitudes toward, supporting young children's English as a second/foreign language development -- Parent English Language Belief and Attitude Questionnaire (PELBA-Q). The PELBA-Q was piloted with 173 parents of kindergarten-aged children and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
Leung, Genevieve; Calcagno, Serena; Tong, Rosina; Uchikoshi, Yuuko – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
While the role of parental ideologies on children's bi/multilingual development and the role of children's beliefs about multilingualism are well-documented, less work examines how parental and student ideologies are enacted through talk. That is, how do students interpret what their family caregivers tell them about bi/multilingualism, and how do…
Descriptors: Sino Tibetan Languages, Parent Attitudes, Ideology, Elementary School Students
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
Et-Bozkurt, Tülay; Yagmur, Kutlay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study investigated the Family Language Policy of second- and third-generation Turkish parents in Melbourne, Australia. Earlier research has shown that the family home is a crucial site for language maintenance [Fishman 1991. "Reversing Language Shift: Theoretical and Empirical Foundations of Assistance to Threatened Languages."…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, Turkish, English (Second Language)
Bohnacker, Ute – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This paper explores family language policy in Turkish-speaking families in Sweden. Questionnaires were administered to the parents of 105 Turkish/Swedish children (age 4-7), targeting family language practices (including parent-parent, parent-child, child-parent, child-and-sibling conversation and language-fostering activities such as joint book…
Descriptors: Turkish, Swedish, Language Usage, Family Relationship
Said, Fatma F. S. – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
The paper describes the transformational role technology plays in the management and transmission of heritage (minority) languages (HL) in two UK-based multilingual families. Data were collected in the form of a language background survey, parental interviews, and recordings of interactional events within the home. Findings suggest that parents…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Language Attitudes, Multilingualism, Language Usage
Bezcioglu-Goktolga, Irem; Yagmur, Kutlay – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
This study investigated the family language policy of second-generation Turkish immigrant families in the Netherlands by exploring their language ideologies, practices, and management strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, data were collected through a set of observations and interviews with 20 families. Transcriptions of interviews and memos…
Descriptors: Turkish, Immigrants, Family Environment, Language Usage
Stavans, Anat; Olshtain, Elite; Goldzweig, Gil – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2009
The present study describes factors affecting the home and school literacy patterns in the Ethiopian immigrant community in Israel. Parents were asked to complete a questionnaire evaluating their child's development, literacy, schooling, and language proficiency (L1 and L2). The results indicate that while non-Ethiopian and Ethiopian parents seek…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Social Life, Foreign Countries, Values
Schwartz, Mila – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
The family unit and home domain have been and remain important in heritage language maintenance efforts. There are complex relationships between parental language attitudes, their application in everyday language management activities and the children's knowledge of home language vocabulary. The present large-scale study examined the family policy…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Jews, Language Attitudes
Reese, Leslie; Thompson, Sylvia Linan; Goldenberg, Claude – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
Drawing on data from 14 communities in California and Texas, this paper examines the variability in language and literacy resources across communities with large numbers of Latino families. Spanish-speaking children live in communities that vary considerably with respect to language use, ethnic composition and education levels. Children's…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Emergent Literacy, Spanish Speaking, Language Usage