A Mother's Tongue

Kouritzin, Sandra G.

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“…Clyne and Kipp 1997;Pauwels 1985), whereas the evidence at the individual level is less clear-cut and more diverse (see, e.g. Kouritzin 2000;Okita 2001;Piller 2001;Yamamoto 2002). The focus of research has clearly been on nuclear families of parents living with their biological children; single-parent families, blended families as well as extended families have so far been underresearched.…”

Section: Factors In Language Transmissionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Language transmission revisited: family type, linguistic environment and language attitudes

Schüpbach

2009

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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Section: Factors In Language Transmissionmentioning

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Language transmission revisited: family type, linguistic environment and language attitudes

Schüpbach

2009

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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“…Increasingly, parents are bringing their children to English-dominant countries believing that language learning for their children will be best achieved in an immersion environment, but also to invest in their children's future global competence. Investment into learning a new language in a new cultural context, however, has its costs and affordances (King, Fogle, & Logan-Terry, 2008;Kouritzin, 2000;Norton Peirce, 1995). Many longer-term visitors (sojourners) who bring their children with the overriding goal of English language acquisition (L2) may not be aware that successful native language maintenance is, to a great extent, the result of emerging parental agency (i.e., ability to decide and take action) in fostering their native language.…”

Section: Decisions and Investmentsmentioning

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Bilingualism and Family: Parental Beliefs; Child Agency

Nyikos

2014

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Globalizing forces and choices move families out of their native language (L1) environments to places where their heritage language (L1) is in the minority. This study focuses on academic sojourner families and their school-aged children and asks how they maintain their native language, during limited stays in the USA (1-7 years). How can native language be maintained relative to the social, emotional, linguistic, and personal challenges faced by parents and children during their sojourn in the USA? Is the task of sustaining a child's native language in the newly-entered social and scholastic context of a dominant language undermined by underestimation of the impact of erosionary forces on the heritage language? These are some of the key issues identified in a larger ongoing study, of which a sub-sample of three linguistically well-informed families (parent-child pairs) is presented here. Findings include the significant impact of parental beliefs regarding the resilience of language on the maintenance of the L1 coupled with the emerging sociolinguistic competence and agency of the child in the L2 environment, which in turn can raise separate challenges for the parent, as well as the child, and for the parent-child relationship.

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“…Many of the children's teachers in different cities and classes under the pretext it is good and important for the development of the children's linguistic skills of L2, they persistently implored to use this language at home. In accordance, researchers confirm that many national teachers recommend and request that parents speak the majority language (L2) at home in order not to confuse their children and to save them from difficulties in school (Kouritzin, 1997(Kouritzin, , 1999(Kouritzin, , 2000Schecter & Bayley, 1997). It is mistakenly believed that the ongoing use of parents' language at home and in school will lead to interference with the national language of the country where they live.…”

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“…Sociolinguists sometimes give a label to this language. Kouritzin (1997Kouritzin ( , 1999Kouritzin ( , 2000, and Schecter and Bayley (1997) mention that parents in spite of their very limited L2 proficiency often switch to L2 in order to match their children's preferences or believing that are helping their children practice the L2 and facilitating their integration in school. In the sense, parents are following their children's teachers' advice.…”

Section: Bilingual Educationmentioning

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Parents’ First Language is Their Children’s Second Language. Language Loss: Arabic is a Case

Al-Jumaily¹

2015

IJELT

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This study tackles the problem of heritage language loss or shift among immigrants' children. It is hypothesized that not only the heritage language which may shift, but the family values and sociocultural behaviours as well. The study tries to understand and further explain the process of language loss and maintenance. It drives at investigating how far the following statement true is: it is quite common among researchers and scholars that if children become fluent in L2, L1 consequently declines. The paper focuses on the Arabic language loss or attrition among the Arab immigrants' children. It begins with an introduction in order to provide the reader with a brief account to the process of language loss alongside with some definitions. In addition, it investigates the factors responsible for language loss, and simultaneously the negative consequences of this loss. Accordingly, the study attempts to explore whose responsibility the heritage language maintenance is-parents, schools, politicians, Arabic governments, or the Arab communities? Worthy to mention that the advantage of bilingualism is highly appreciated and considered in this study since it is a plus factor in this domain.

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A Mother's Tongue

Cited by 49 publications

References 21 publications

Language transmission revisited: family type, linguistic environment and language attitudes

Language transmission revisited: family type, linguistic environment and language attitudes

Bilingualism and Family: Parental Beliefs; Child Agency

Parents’ First Language is Their Children’s Second Language. Language Loss: Arabic is a Case

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