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Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenting: Parents' Perspectives on Family Language Policy for Additive Bilingualism.

TL;DR: This paper investigated how parents explain, frame and defend their particular family language policies, and found that parents primarily relied on their own personal experiences with language learning in making decision, and how these decisions are linked to their identities as good parents.
Abstract: This paper investigates how parents explain, frame and defend their particular family language policies. We focus here on 24 families who are attempting to achieve additive Spanish-English bilingualism for their children, an aim which in many cases requires parents to use and to teach a language that is not their first language, nor the primary language of the home or wider community. We explore how parents make these decisions; how parents position themselves relative to ‘expert’ advice and other members of their extended families; and how these decisions are linked to their identities as ‘good’ parents. Our data suggest that parents draw selectively from expert advice and popular literature, using it to bolster their decisions in some cases while rejecting it in others. Extended families, in contrast, generally were raised in the interview discourse as points of (negative) contrast. Overall, we find that parents primarily relied on their own personal experiences with language learning in making decision...
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TL;DR: Reading a book as this basics of qualitative research grounded theory procedures and techniques and other references can enrich your life quality.

13,415 citations

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01 Jan 2009

502 citations

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TL;DR: It is argued that family language policies are important as they shape children's developmental trajectories, connect in significant ways with children's formal school success, and collectively determine the maintenance and future status of minority languages.
Abstract: This article describes the newly emerging field of family language policy, defined as explicit and overt planning in relation to language use within the home among family members, and provides an integrated overview of research on how languages are managed, learned, and negotiated within families. A comprehensive framework for understanding family language policy is sketched by bringing together two independent and currently disconnected fields of study: language policy and child language acquisition. Within such a framework, this article reviews research on the role of language ideologies in shaping family language practices, and on the connection between different family language policies, such as the one person–one language approach, and child language outcomes. We argue that family language policies are important as they shape children's developmental trajectories, connect in significant ways with children's formal school success, and collectively determine the maintenance and future status of minority languages.

406 citations

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TL;DR: This article reviewed a selection of applied linguistics research from the past five years that uses interviews in case study, ethnographic, narrative, (auto)biographical, and related qualitative frameworks, focusing in particular on the ideologies of language, communication, and the interview, or the communicable cartographies of interviewing, that are evident in them.
Abstract: Interviews have been used for decades in empirical inquiry across the social sciences as one or the primary means of generating data. In applied linguistics, interview research has increased dramatically in recent years, particularly in qualitative studies that aim to investigate participants’ identities, experiences, beliefs, and orientations toward a range of phenomena. However, despite the proliferation of interview research in qualitative applied linguistics, it has become equally apparent that there is a profound inconsistency in how the interview has been and continues to be theorized in the field. This article critically reviews a selection of applied linguistics research from the past 5 years that uses interviews in case study, ethnographic, narrative, (auto)biographical, and related qualitative frameworks, focusing in particular on the ideologies of language, communication, and the interview, or the communicable cartographies of interviewing, that are evident in them. By contrasting what is referred to as an interview as research instrument perspective with a research interview as social practice orientation, the article argues for greater reflexivity about the interview methods that qualitative applied linguists use in their studies, the status ascribed to interview data, and how those data are analyzed and represented.

394 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined how family languages policies are planned and developed in ten Chinese immigrant families in Quebec, Canada, with regard to their children's language and literacy education in three languages, Chinese, English, and French.
Abstract: This ethnographic inquiry examines how family languages policies are planned and developed in ten Chinese immigrant families in Quebec, Canada, with regard to their children’s language and literacy education in three languages, Chinese, English, and French. The focus is on how multilingualism is perceived and valued, and how these three languages are linked to particular linguistic markets. The parental ideology that underpins the family language policy, the invisible language planning, is the central focus of analysis. The results suggest that family language policies are strongly influenced by socio-political and economical factors. In addition, the study confirms that the parents’ educational background, their immigration experiences and their cultural disposition, in this case pervaded by Confucian thinking, contribute significantly to parental expectations and aspirations and thus to the family language policies.

321 citations


Cites background from "Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenti..."

  • ...There are a few studies that have explored FLP within bilingual family context (Piller 2001, 2002; King and Fogle 2006; King 2000; Okita 2002); these studies explore the role of parenting, in particular parental knowledge of child bilingual development, as basis for FLP formation....

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  • ...They suggest that FLP is best viewed within the frameworks of language policy and child language acquisition (King and Fogle 2006; King et al. 2008)....

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  • ...Through the thick description, parents’ accounts not only reveal their attitudes towards different languages, but also divulge their desired goals of being ‘good parents’ (King and Fogle 2006)....

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  • ...Recent studies of FLP have drawn on the theory of child language acquisition (King et al. 2008; King and Fogle 2006; De Houwer 2007; Piller 2001, 2002)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the uses of literature and open coding techniques for enhancing theoretical sensitivity of theoretical studies, and give guidelines for judging a grounded theory study.
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TL;DR: Reading a book as this basics of qualitative research grounded theory procedures and techniques and other references can enrich your life quality.

13,415 citations


"Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenti..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...Following grounded theory protocol (Strauss, 1987; Strauss & Corbin, 1990), we reviewed each interview for meaningful, relevant discourse units (phrases, sentences or longer expressive units), grouped and then coded these into approximately 30 conceptual categories....

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TL;DR: This book presents a meta-coding pedagogical architecture grounded in awareness contexts that helps practitioners and students understand one another better and take responsibility for one another's learning.
Abstract: The teaching of qualitative analysis in the social sciences is rarely undertaken in a structured way. This handbook is designed to remedy that and to present students and researchers with a systematic method for interpreting qualitative data', whether derived from interviews, field notes, or documentary materials. The special emphasis of the book is on how to develop theory through qualitative analysis. The reader is provided with the tools for doing qualitative analysis, such as codes, memos, memo sequences, theoretical sampling and comparative analysis, and diagrams, all of which are abundantly illustrated by actual examples drawn from the author's own varied qualitative research and research consultations, as well as from his research seminars. Many of the procedural discussions are concluded with rules of thumb that can usefully guide the researchers' analytic operations. The difficulties that beginners encounter when doing qualitative analysis and the kinds of persistent questions they raise are also discussed, as is the problem of how to integrate analyses. In addition, there is a chapter on the teaching of qualitative analysis and the giving of useful advice during research consultations, and there is a discussion of the preparation of material for publication. The book has been written not only for sociologists but for all researchers in the social sciences and in such fields as education, public health, nursing, and administration who employ qualitative methods in their work.

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"Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenti..." refers methods in this paper

  • ...Following grounded theory protocol (Strauss, 1987; Strauss & Corbin, 1990), we reviewed each interview for meaningful, relevant discourse units (phrases, sentences or longer expressive units), grouped and then coded these into approximately 30 conceptual categories....

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01 Sep 2003
TL;DR: The power and limits of social class are explored in this paper, where the authors present a theory of Bourdieu's theory of the power of social structure and daily life in the organization of daily life.
Abstract: Acknowledgments 1. Concerted Cultivation and the Accomplishment of Natural Growth 2. Social Structure and Daily Life PART I. THE ORGANIZATION OF DAILY LIFE 3. A Hectic Pace of Concerted Cultivation: Garrett Tallinger 4. A Child's Pace: Tyrec Taylor 5. Children's Play Is for Children: Katie Brindle PART II. LANGUAGE USE 6. Developing a Child: Alexander Williams 7. Language as a Conduit of Social Life: Harold McAllister PART III. FAMILIES AND INSTITUTIONS 8. Concerted Cultivation in Organizational Spheres: Stacey Marshall 9. Effort Creates Misery: Melanie Handlon 10. Letting Educators Lead the Way: Wendy Driver 11. Beating with a Belt, Fearing "the School": Little Billy Yanelli 12. The Power and Limits of Social Class Appendix A. Methodology: Enduring Dilemmas in Fieldwork Appendix B. Theory: Understanding the Work of Pierre Bourdieu Appendix C. Supporting Tables Notes Bibliography Index

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"Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenti..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…instance, found that over 95% lacked any empirical base for their claims), Tovares (2005) reports that parents (and in particular, middle-class parents [see Lareau, 2003]) actively incorporate expert advice on parenting from literature and childcare professionals into everyday parenting practices....

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  • ...More generally, such an approach to parenting, common among middle and upper middle class US parents, is defined by parents’ concerted cultivation of children’s talents and skills (Lareau, 2003)....

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