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The complexity of family language policy decisions: The case of Cantonese and other regional Chinese varieties

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2019
This paper explores the beliefs, attitudes, and efforts of parents with regard to the use and preservation of regional Chinese varieties including Cantonese in the region of Guangzhou, China.
Li Yaling, Li Danli, Gao Xuesong
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

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

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

Family language policy in the context of return migration: A case study

open access: yesGlottodidactica, 2023
Return migration has probably been granted the lowest attention in the field of family language policy (FLP). The current paper seeks to address this gap in the research and explores the dynamics of FLP of a Polish family in the context of their ...
Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej, M. Daly
semanticscholar   +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

Sweden’s multilingual language policy through the lens of Turkish-heritage family language practices and beliefs

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2023
This study explores the language maintenance efforts of Turkish heritage-speaker families in Sweden and their relation to state-level language policy from three angles.
U. Bohnacker
semanticscholar   +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

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

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