Successful Family Language Policy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Achieving Success in Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction

   • Mila Schwartz, Anna Verschik

   Pages 1-20

3. Family Language Ideology, Practices and Management in Interaction with Mainstream Educational and Bilingual Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Parents’ Choice of a Bilingual Hebrew-Arabic Kindergarten for the Children

      • Mila Schwartz, Victor Moin, Manal Klayle

      Pages 23-51

   3. The Role of Family Background in Early Bilingual Education: The Finnish-Russian Experience

      • Victor Moin, Ekaterina Protassova, Valeria Lukkari, Mila Schwartz

      Pages 53-82

   4. Children Learning Multilingually in Home, Community and School Contexts in Britain

      • Jean Conteh, Saiqa Riasat, Shila Begum

      Pages 83-102

4. Family Language Policy as a Joint Social Venture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103

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   2. Love, Language and Little Ones: Successes and Stresses for Mothers Raising Bilingual Children in Exogamous Relationships

      • Lynda Yates, Agnes Terraschke

      Pages 105-125

   3. Family Language Policy and Management in a Changed Socio-political Situation: Russians and Russian Speakers in Lithuania

      • Meilutė Ramonienė

      Pages 127-143

   4. To Make the Root Stronger: Language Policies and Experiences of Successful Multilingual Intermarried Families with Adolescent Children in Tallinn

      • Colm Doyle

      Pages 145-175

   5. Family Language Policy from the Children’s Point of View: Bilingualism in Place and Time

      • Lyn Wright Fogle

      Pages 177-200

5. The Interaction Patterns Between Parents and Their Children in Their Shared Language and Literacy Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Bimodal Bilingual Families: The Negotiation of Communication Practices Between Deaf Parents and Their Hearing Children

      • Ginger Pizer

      Pages 203-222

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

      • Åsa Palviainen, Sally Boyd

      Pages 223-248

   4. Happylingual: A Family Project for Enhancing and Balancing Multilingual Development

      • Shulamit Kopeliovich

      Pages 249-275

   5. Negotiating Family Language Policy: Doing Homework

      • Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen

      Pages 277-295

This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy. This is the first volume to explore the link between family language policy, practice and management in the light of state and community language policy in more than 20 ethno-linguistic communities worldwide. Contributions by leading scholars from eight countries and three continents offer insights in how family language policy might be interpreted from various theoretical perspectives, using innovative methodologies. In particular, the authors present novel data on successful family language practices such as faith-related literacy activities and homework sessions, as well as management, including prayer, choice of bilingual education, and links with mainstream and complementary learning, which permit the realization of language ideology within three contexts: immigrant families, inter-marriage families, and minority and majority families in conflict-ridden societies.

• Community Language Policy
• Family Language Policy
• Hierarchy of language esteem
• L2 learners
• Language socialisation and faith
• Multilingual development
• One-person one language policy in bilingual families
• Successful family language managment
• Young adults' perspectives on growing up bilingual

“Successful Family Language Policy pays testimony to the recent upsurge in interest in the area of family language policy (FLP), also referred to as family language management. … This compilation is an important first step in a process of between-context comparison which will allow for important questions to be addressed … .” (Francesca Walls, Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literatures, Vol. 8 (4), November-December, 2015)

• Dept. of Research & Evaluation Authority, Oranim Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tivon, Israel

  Mila Schwartz

• Institute of Estonian Language & Culture Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

  Anna Verschik

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