Unity in Discourse, Diversity in Practice: The One Person One Language Policy in Bilingual Families

Palviainen, Åsa; Boyd, Sally

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7753-8_10

Cited by 94 publications

(44 citation statements)

References 28 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…De Houwer (2007) illustrated, in her research with 1899 families in Belgium, that parents' linguistic input determined whether or not their children became bilingual. On the other hand, although parents manage language activities up to a certain age, when their children start to socialise outside of the family, they bring the mainstream language home (Spolsky and Shohamy 2000) and resist the language practices of their parents (Caldas and Caron-Caldas 2002;Fogle 2013;Kayam and Hirsch 2012;Kopeliovich 2010Kopeliovich , 2013Luykx 2005;Palviainen and Boyd 2013). Caldas and Caron-Caldas (2002) revealed in their research that children tend to choose the language of the mainstream society as they grow up, despite their parents' efforts to foster bilingualism.…”

Section: Construction Of Family Language Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands

Bezcioğlu-Göktolga

Yağmur

2017

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigated the family language policy of second-generation Turkish immigrant families in the Netherlands by exploring their language ideologies, practices, and management strategies. Using an ethnographic approach, data were collected through a set of observations and interviews with 20 families. Transcriptions of interviews and memos of observations were coded to derive the major strategies employed by parents regarding home language use. The findings show that, although Turkish maintenance is a very important part of the linguistic ideologies of the families studied, there is great diversity and complexity in their language practices and management strategies. All of the families focus their language planning activities around the educational achievement of their children. Therefore, the recommendations of educational institutions are very important in their language practices. ARTICLE HISTORY

show abstract

Section: Construction Of Family Language Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands

Bezcioğlu-Göktolga

Yağmur

2017

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Studies of the OPOL language strategies in Swedish-Finish families with young children in Sweden (Huss, 1991) and in Finland (Palviainen & Boyd, 2013) have pointed out various aspects of how these strategies are implemented in different participant constellations and contexts. Huss (1991) studied the development of children's bilingualism in Swedish-Finnish families in Sweden.…”

Section: Research On Language Practices and Parents' Strategies In Bimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a study of multilingual (Finish-Swedish) families in Finland, Palviainen and Boyd (2013) examined the OPOL language policy, demonstrating that it was an outcome of explicit and overt language planning as well as less overt decisions and unplanned practices. Whereas parents reported that they had explicitly decided on a Swedish daycare for children, the adoption of OPOL had occurred and developed naturally and unconsciously.…”

Section: Research On Language Practices and Parents' Strategies In Bimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Family language practices operate at a local, micro scale in interaction with societal policies at a global, macro scale. In other words, family language policies are influenced by wider social, political, and cultural contexts (Caldas, 2012;CurdtChristiansen, 2013;Palviainen & Boyd, 2013). Parental language policies are not static or unidirectional (Caldas, 2012), and they may be subject to negotiations among family members (Barron-Hauwaert, 2004;Shohamy 2006).…”

Section: Summaries Of Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

From family language practices to family language policies : Children as socializing agents

Kheirkhah

2016

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Lately, several studies have highlighted parents' views on bilingualism from emotional and cognitive perspectives and the impact of these perspectives on parents' decision-making (Fogle 2013). Relatively little work, however, has been devoted to looking at the ways in which parents' and children's goals and beliefs regarding language are realized as concrete efforts to shape language use and learning outcomes (King et al 2008;Palviainen and Boyd 2013).…”

Section: Family Language Policies and Children's Bi-/multilingualismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Family: Informal Heritage Language Lessons in Parent–Child Interactions

2015

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present study explores language socialization patterns in a Persian-Kurdish family in Sweden and examines how “one-parent, one-language” family language policies are instantiated and negotiated in parent–child interactions. The data consist of video-recordings and ethnographic observations of family interactions, as well as interviews. Detailed interactional analysis is employed to investigate parental language maintenance efforts and the child’s agentive orientation in relation to the recurrent interactional practices through which parents attempt to enforce a monolingual, heritage language “context” for parent–child interaction. We examine the interactional trajectories that develop in parents’ requests for translation that target the focus child’s (a7-year-old girl’s) lexical mixings. These practices resembled formal language instruction: The parents suspended the ongoing conversational activity, requested that the child translate the problematic item, modeled and assessed her language use. The instructional exchanges were asymmetrically organized: the parents positioned themselves as “experts”, insisting on the child’s active participation, whereas the child’s (affectively aggravated) resistance was frequent, and the parents recurrently accommodated the child by terminating the language instruction. The study argues that an examination of children’s agency, and the social dynamics characterizing parental attempts to shape children’s heritage language use, can provide significant insights into the conditions for language maintenance

show abstract

Unity in Discourse, Diversity in Practice: The One Person One Language Policy in Bilingual Families

Cited by 94 publications

References 28 publications

Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands

Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands

From family language practices to family language policies : Children as socializing agents

Language Maintenance in a Multilingual Family: Informal Heritage Language Lessons in Parent–Child Interactions

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About