Immigrant Parents' Choice of a Bilingual Versus Monolingual Kindergarten for Second-Generation Children: Motives, Attitudes, and Factors

Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark; Breitkopf, Anna

doi:10.1080/19313152.2010.499038

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“…Ειδικότερα, η επιστημονική έρευνα εξετάζει τις στρατηγικές που χρησιμοποιούν οι γονείς για να μεγαλώσουν δίγλωσσα παιδιά, τον ρόλο της οικογένειας στην επίτευξη των στόχων της διγλωσσίας καθώς και τις προκλήσεις που αντιμετωπίζουν οι γονείς στη δίγλωσση ανατροφή των παιδιών τους. Ειδικότερα, η επιστημονική κοινότητα (Álvarez de la Fuente, Fernández Fuertes, & Arratia García, 2018˙ Kadaníková & Neubauer, 2017˙ Wilson, 2019 εστιάζει σε αυτό που οι Schwartz et al (2010) ονομάζουν εσωτερικές στρατηγικές,οι οποίες εκτελούνται στο σπίτι, και στις εξωτερικές στρατηγικές, οι οποίες υποστηρίζουν τη μειονοτική γλώσσα στην κοινότητα. Στην παρούσα έρευνα μελετάται το φαινόμενο της διγλωσσίας σε παιδιά προσχολικής ηλικίας (φοιτούν στο νηπιαγωγείο), τα οποία προέρχονται από οικογένειες μεταναστών από διάφορες χώρες.…”

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Αντιλήψεις Γονέων Δίγλωσσων Παιδιών Προσχολικής Ηλικίας Απέναντι Στη Διατήρηση Της Εθνοτικής Τους Γλώσσας

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2021

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Το ζήτημα της διγλωσσίας είναι κάτι που απασχολεί πολλούς μετανάστες γονείς, οι οποίοι ζουν στην Ελλάδα και έχουν παιδιά που φοιτούν σε ελληνικά σχολεία. Η βασική τους ανησυχία είναι η εκμάθηση των ελληνικών, ήδη κατά τη διάρκεια φοίτησης των παιδιών στις τάξεις του νηπιαγωγείου, σε συνδυασμό με την διατήρηση της εθνοτικής τους γλώσσας. Στην παρούσα εργασία διερευνάται η στάση γονέων δίγλωσσων παιδιών προσχολικής ηλικίας, σχετικά με τη διατήρηση της εθνοτικής γλώσσας στην επόμενη γενιά. Η έρευνα βασίζεται σε ημιδομημένες συνεντεύξεις με δεκαπέντε (15) γονείς, που κατάγονται από διάφορες χώρες της Ευρώπης, αλλά και την Αυστραλία. Όπως διαπιστώθηκε από τα ευρήματα της έρευνας, οι περισσότεροι γονείς θέτουν ως βασική προτεραιότητα του οικογενειακού γλωσσικού προγραμματισμού τους την εκμάθηση των ελληνικών, καθώς είναι η γλώσσα καθημερινής επικοινωνίας των παιδιών. Ωστόσο, σχετικά με τη διατήρηση της εθνοτικής γλώσσας στο οικογενειακό περιβάλλον παρατηρούνται διαφοροποιήσεις ανάμεσα στους γονείς, οι οποίες αναλύονται και ερμηνεύονται στην παρούσα εργασία.

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Αντιλήψεις Γονέων Δίγλωσσων Παιδιών Προσχολικής Ηλικίας Απέναντι Στη Διατήρηση Της Εθνοτικής Τους Γλώσσας

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“…Through their parents and other adults at home, DLLs are exposed to their heritage language (HL) and their heritage culture (Hughes et al, 2006;Ramírez et al, 2020). At the same time, immigrant parents themselves typically undergo various transitions such as cultural, social, behavioral, and psychological changes coming in contact with a new culture (Schwartz M. et al, 2010;Toro and Nieri, 2018). Parents adopt acculturation strategies that vary by individual factors such as age, education, migration reasons, personal factors, and cultural distance between their heritage culture and host culture (Berry, 1997;Williams et al, 2017).…”

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Parental Acculturation and Children’s Bilingual Abilities: A Study With Chinese American and Mexican American Preschool DLLs

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Previous studies support the link of parental acculturation to their children’s academic achievement, identity, and family relations. Prior research also suggests that parental language proficiency is associated with children’s vocabulary knowledge. However, few studies have examined the links of parental acculturation to young children’s oral language abilities. As preschool oral language skills have been shown to predict future academic achievement, it is critical to understand the relations between parental acculturation and bilingual abilities with young immigrant children. Furthermore, few studies have examined the links between parental acculturation and children’s bilingual ability among different immigrant groups who live in the same areas to understand possible similarities and differences. To address these gaps, this study examines these relations in two of the largest and fastest-growing immigrant populations in the United States, Chinese American and Mexican American families. A total of 119 dual language learners (DLLs; 64 Chinese Americans and 55 Mexican Americans) enrolled in Head Start programs in Northern California were recruited. DLLs were assessed on oral language measures in both their heritage language (HL) and English. Parental interviews were conducted to obtain parental acculturation and language proficiency. Results showed no significant group differences between Chinese American and Mexican American parents on the majority of their acculturation dimensions. Furthermore, there were no significant group differences in the bilingual abilities between Chinese American and Mexican American DLLs. Cluster analysis identified four groups of DLLs based on their bilingual ability: high language ability in both English and HL, low language ability in both, English-dominant, and HL-dominant. Results suggest that parental acculturation levels are more similar than different among the four groups. On average, parents in all four groups had stronger ties to their heritage culture and HL than to the American culture. Results also showed links between parental cultural identities and children’s language dominance. Parents of English-dominant children had significantly higher levels of American identity than the parents of children with high ability in both languages. Implications are discussed.

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“…Immigrants' generation status can be classified based on their or their parents' countries of birth (Duncan & Trejo, 2017). Specifically, first-generation immigrants refer to foreign-born individuals who have moved from one's native country to another host country (Bradby, Humphris, Newall, & Philimore, 2015), whereas second-generation immigrants include individuals born in the host country and have at least one foreign-born parent (Duncan & Trejo, 2017;Schwartz, Moin, Leikin, & Breitkopf, 2010;Zhou, 1997). First-generation immigrants were found to hold gender attitudes that reflect more strongly the country of origin's gender attitudes than second-generation immigrants (Pessin & Arpino, 2018), which may influence some aspects of their adaptation to the United States.…”

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The gender ideology of ‘Wise Mother and Good Wife’ and Korean immigrant women’s adjustment in the United States

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The 'wise mother and good wife' (Hyonmo Yangcho) is a traditional Korean gender ideology that urges women to contribute to the nation through their role as managers of their household and caregivers of their family (Choi, 2009). Gender ideology refers to individuals' attitudes toward gender-related social norms (Levant, 1996). In general, gender ideology measures endorsement and internalization of cultural belief systems about masculinity/femininity and male/female gender, rooted in the structural relationship between the two sexes (Pleck, 1995, p. 19). Derived from Confucianism, the 'wise mother and good wife' ideology has been reshaped over time but continues to persist both in modern Korean society and among first-generation Korean immigrant women in the United States (Choi, Miller, & Wilbur, 2009; Park & Bernstein, 2008). It is important to note that not all Korean or Korean immigrant women in the United States are influenced by Confucian values, seek to fulfill the expectations of the 'wise mother and good wife' ideology, or experience challenges associated with this ideology. As with all cultural values, norms, or expectations, variations exist in terms of how they are internalized and/or practiced by any specific individual within that culture (i.e., a socially constructed or transmitted cluster of practices, ideas, values, norms, goals, artifacts, and physical environment; Cohen, 2009; Fiske, 2002) or society (Morris, Hong, Chiu, & Liu, 2015). However, some previous studies have briefly outlined various challenges faced by Korean immigrants related to this gender ideology including mental health issues (e.g., Min, 2006).

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Immigrant Parents' Choice of a Bilingual Versus Monolingual Kindergarten for Second-Generation Children: Motives, Attitudes, and Factors

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

Αντιλήψεις Γονέων Δίγλωσσων Παιδιών Προσχολικής Ηλικίας Απέναντι Στη Διατήρηση Της Εθνοτικής Τους Γλώσσας

Αντιλήψεις Γονέων Δίγλωσσων Παιδιών Προσχολικής Ηλικίας Απέναντι Στη Διατήρηση Της Εθνοτικής Τους Γλώσσας

Parental Acculturation and Children’s Bilingual Abilities: A Study With Chinese American and Mexican American Preschool DLLs

The gender ideology of ‘Wise Mother and Good Wife’ and Korean immigrant women’s adjustment in the United States

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