‘Mothers have the power!’: Czech mothers’ language ideologies and management practices in the context of a Czech complementary school in Greece

Gogonas, Nikolaos; Maligkoudi, Christina

doi:10.1080/13670050.2020.1799324

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“…Based on different parental linguistic practices with other family members, the study underlined the role of mothers as the major determinant of language choice and the role of fathers as the transmitter of the HL. Although prior studies viewed mothers as the 'gatekeeper of language maintenance' (Extra and Verhoeven 1999: 20) and signified their effective role in L1 transition (Gogonas and Maligkoudi 2020;Kaveh 2017;Nesteruk 2010), this study reached opposite results. The strong inclination of mothers to use Persian instead of Kurdish can be explained by the mothers' sensitivity to the accomplishments of their children which are linked to a good command of Persian.…”

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Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

2022

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Minority language studies have received increasing attention over the last decade in Iran. Drawing on Spolsky’s (Spolsky, Bernard. 2004. Language policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) language policy theoretical framework, this inquiry reports on the language ideologies, practices, and management efforts of an under-explored group of Kurdish families residing in the city of Kermanshah. To this end, semi-structured interviews and ethnographic fieldwork guided the collection of data from 40 Kurdish–Persian bilingual parents. The thematic analysis of data revealed glaring inconsistencies among the three elements of family language policy (FLP). That is parents’ strong attachment to Kurdish did not necessarily translate into their language practices and efforts. The results also suggest that the studied parents adopted a subtractive approach to their children’s proficiency in Kurdish. We argue that parents are not the core force in heritage language maintenance and there are other external factors determining the transmission of the home language.

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Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

2022

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“…Maintenance of home language and cultures is often important for immigrant communities even in situations when their language is marginalized in public and political discourse, and home may remain the only stronghold domain for immigrant/heritage languages (Meddegama, 2020). Multiple studies have shown associations between immigrants’ and refugees’ choices of home language policies (i.e., a shift to the majority language of the host country or maintenance of their home language) and language attitudes (Alsahafi, 2022; Gogonas & Maligkoudi, 2022; Makarova et al, 2017). Attitudes in general are “favourable, unfavourable or neutral evaluations of an attitude object that can be represented by a person, a product, or a social group” (Ceccoli, 2022, p. 337).…”

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The linguistic Odyssey of Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada

Makarova

Morozovskaia

2022

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Very little is known to date about the long-term dynamics of balancing home and dominant languages by adult immigrants. Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada remain an underrepresented group with no available studies of their language development. To address these gaps, this article describes a linguistic journey experienced by Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada as they adapt to the life in the host country. The major objective of the study is to examine the importance of learning the host country’s majority languages (English and French) vis-à-vis maintenance of the home language as seen by the participants in the beginning and after a few years of immigration. Design/methodology/approach: The article reports the results of a mixed-methods study involving an online survey and written narratives about language dynamics in immigration. Data and analysis: One hundred Russian-speaking immigrants from nine countries residing in seven Canadian provinces participated in the study. The analysis involves quantitative comparisons of responses involving correlation and chi-square tests as well as qualitative descriptions of the participants’ linguistic experiences. Findings/conclusions: The results indicate that over the time since immigration, the importance of the English language learning decreases, and the importance of Russian language maintenance increases for the participants, whereas the salience of acquiring French remains unchanged. Originality: The new finding is the trajectory of the relationship between the participants’ interest in the home language and culture maintenance and host languages and cultures learning over the years of immigration. Significance/implications: These results align with the authors’ linguistic equilibrium hypothesis of language dynamics in immigration. The implications of the study involve long-term support of linguacultural needs of immigrant communities. Limitations: The research conducted during COVID-19 was limited in methods and would benefit from in-person interviews in future. Expanding the project to other immigrant groups for comparison is another direction for future research.

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Seeing from the North: a Critical Family Language Policy study of a peripheral European minority community

Laihonen,

Bodó,

Gáspár

et al. 2024

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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‘Mothers have the power!’: Czech mothers’ language ideologies and management practices in the context of a Czech complementary school in Greece

Cited by 3 publications

References 40 publications

Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

The linguistic Odyssey of Russian-speaking immigrants in Canada

Seeing from the North: a Critical Family Language Policy study of a peripheral European minority community

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