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Successful Family Language Policy

Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction

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Editors:
  1. Mila Schwartz

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

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  2. Anna Verschik

    1. Institute of Estonian Language & Culture Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

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  • Reports from forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy
  • A unique focus on successful family language practices and management
  • Research from 3 continents, 8 countries and more than 20 ethno-linguistic communities ?

Part of the book series: Multilingual Education (MULT, volume 7)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  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

  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
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Successful Family Language Policy

  • Book Subtitle: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction

  • Editors: Mila Schwartz, Anna Verschik

  • Series Title: Multilingual Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7753-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7752-1Published: 08 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0026-7Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7753-8Published: 12 December 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2213-3208

  • Series E-ISSN: 2213-3216

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 295

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education, Sociolinguistics, Educational Policy and Politics

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