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The impact of parental language ideology and family language policy on language shift and language maintenance: Bilingual perspective

open access: yesEdulite: Journal of English Education, Literature, and Culture, 2022
This study aims to investigate parents’ language ideology and family language policy (FLP) among Acehnese families that impact on language shift and language maintenance of Acehnese as a heritage language.
Idaryani Idaryani, Fidyati Fidyati
doaj   +1 more source

The Experiences of Minority Immigrant Families Receiving Child Welfare Services: Seeking to Understand How to Reduce Risk and Increase Protective Factors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Wide recognition that families in the child welfare system experience multiple stressors has resulted in the development of a range of prevention and intervention strategies at individual, family, and policy levels.1 This article reports on a research ...
Alaggia, Ramona   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Family Language Policy in a Hakka Community in Sabah, Malaysia

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2020
Hakka has been the lingua franca used among various Chinese groups in Sabah, Malaysia, since the 1950s. Economic development and de-emphasis on ethnic identity within Chinese communities throughout Malaysia is now forcing Sabah Hakkas to confront ...
Chih-I Liao
doaj   +3 more sources

Language choice in online written communication among Maldivian professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Language choice is a sociolinguistic phenomenon which refers to the selection of language(s) for different purposes in various contexts. This study examines the language choice of Maldivians in online written communication in the domains of family ...
Fathimath Fahmee,, Yong, Mei Fung
core   +1 more source

Exploring the complexities of transnationalism: The temporality, the family, and the host language – An empirical study

open access: yesAmpersand, 2021
Transnational living patterns have become increasingly more common. Language is how transnationals ‘forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement’ (Basch et al.
Tijana Hirsch, Orly Kayam
doaj   +1 more source

Troubling meanings of "family" for young people who have been in care: from policy to lived experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article seeks to trouble the concept of “family” for young people who have been in out-of-home care, by reflecting on the continuing significance (and troubles) of family relationships beyond childhood.
Becker S.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Lithuanian language discourses and family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden: A case study

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2019
Lithuanian language discourses and family language policies of Lithuanian families in Sweden: A case study This case study shares first insights of the family language policy of a Lithuanian family in Sweden.
Frederik H. Bissinger
doaj   +1 more source

The Social Underpinnings of Language Practices in Swedish-English Families

open access: yesCurrent Swedish Archaeology, 2021
By means of a large-scale quantitative approach, this study examines the declared family language practices of Swedish-English bilingual families living in Sweden, and how an array of family-external and family-internal social factors correlate with ...
Tim Roberts
doaj   +1 more source

“We Speak Pidgin!” – Family Language Policy as the Telling Case for Translanguaging Spaces and Monolingual Ideologies

open access: yesOpen Linguistics, 2020
With the increase in global movement, both temporary (travel and transsettlement) and permanent (e/immigration), traditional conceptions of the linguistic processes rooted largely in the long-term translocation(s) or migrations are revisited through the ...
Hirsch Tijana, Kayam Orly
doaj   +1 more source

Language usage during shared reading—family communication as implicit plurilingual family language policy

open access: yesFrontiers in Communication
This brief research report explores the language choices of Emirati fathers when sharing reading with their young children, and discusses how implicit plurilingual family language policies may be expressed through these choices.
Anna Dillon   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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