In this paper, I look at how multilingual parents attempt to transmit and maintain their native languages at home with their children. The 18 multilingual Jamilies in my study spoke mostly English at home even when both parents shared the same non-English language äs their native language. Myfindings suggest that the children in these families are often the ones who decide what the family's home language will be. The parents' educational and socioeconomic statuses also influence the shift toward English language usage because poor and less-educated parents have few resources to help them with home language maintenance.

Increasing college students’ exposure to global contexts and improving their intercultural competency remain challenging educational objectives, especially at the community college level. Fortunately, the recent shift in higher education from study abroad opportunities toward so-called “internationalization at home” initiatives, where students interact with people from cultures outside their own while remaining on their home campuses, offers new options. In this article, we describe a virtual exchange activity that we conducted between our sociology courses at a community college in the United States and two universities in Japan. We show through our assessment of the students’ experiences that a well-coordinated, carefully crafted, technology-enhanced internationalization at home activity has the potential to offer important global learning opportunities and intercultural competency development for sociology students who may otherwise lack the means to participate in study abroad.