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Invisible and visible language planning: ideological factors in the family language policy of Chinese immigrant families in Quebec
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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.read more
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Family Language Policy
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.
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Conflicting language ideologies and contradictory language practices in Singaporean multilingual families
TL;DR: This paper studied three multilingual families in Singapore representing three major ethnic groups (Chinese, Malay and Indian) and found that language ideologies are "power-inflected" and tend to become the source of educational and social tensions which in turn shape family language practices.
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Family language policy and bilingual parenting
Kendall A. King,Lyn Wright Fogle +1 more
Abstract: While the study of bilingual development among children dates back roughly a century (Leopold 1939–49; Ronjat 19131), a defined research focus on family language policy is relatively new. Family language policy (FLP) links studies of child language acquisition and early second language learning and bilingualism with the field of language policy. FLP examines language policy in relation to language use and language choice within the home among family members (King, Fogle & Logan-Terry 2008). This line of inquiry differs from more psycholinguistically oriented investigations of bilingualism; rather than targeting the child, the emphasis of FLP is on the balance between and use of languages within the family unit. Thus, FLP addresses child language learning and use as functions of parental ideologies, decision-making and strategies concerning languages and literacies, as well as the broader social and cultural context of family life. The interdisciplinary field of FLP draws from anthropology (and work on language socialization in particular) and sociolinguistics (specifically, discourse analysis) while also incorporating traditional psychological approaches to bilingualism. While FLP is still coalescing as a field, there have already been several notable shifts. The first of these is increased focus on and intentional inclusion of a broader, more diverse range of family types, languages, and social contexts. While FLP research has tended to document twoparent, middle-class homes in which children are acquiring more than one European language (Métraux 1965; Lanza 1992), current work explores how these processes play out within minority language and/or non-traditional (e.g. adoptive, single-parent) families in transnational or diasporic contexts (Canagarajah 2008). Second, the last ten years of FLP research have been marked by increased emphasis on the family as a dynamic system, including the importance of child agency and identity choices, both enacted through language (Okita 2001; Gafaranga 2010). Third, current work in FLP gives greater emphasis to trilingualism or multilingualism, with a growing number of studies examining how families manage multiple languages (Lanza & Svendsen 2007; Curdt-Christiansen 2009).
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Child Agency and Language Policy in Transnational Families
Lyn Wright Fogle,Kendall A. King +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined how child agency and language use patterns influence parent language behaviors, including metalinguistic comments, children's use of resistance strategies, parental responses to children's growing linguistic competence, and enactments of family- external ideologies of race and language.
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Family language policy: sociopolitical reality versus linguistic continuity
TL;DR: For instance, King and Fogle as mentioned in this paper studied the role of family language policy (FLP) in the process of language shift and change in families, and how families negotiate between social pressure, political impositions, and public education demands on the one hand and the desire for cultural loyalty and linguistic continuity on the other.
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