Abstracts Archive

In the Castilian-Spanish-dominated sociolinguistic terrains of Galicia, this paper examines the rise of grassroots-level actors or agents in the form of parents who have decided to contest the government's low-intensity language policy models through various bottom-up efforts. The term low-intensity...

This contribution shines light on the challenges of multilingual pedagogies in the complex minority setting of South Tyrol, a trilingual province in Northern Italy, where three autochtonous language communities – each with their own school system and language education policies coexist. The p...

Australia is a multilingual nation, yet a monolingual bias persists as evidenced in 'English only' attitudes, both in society and educational contexts (Eisenchlas & Shoecraft, 2022). This monolingual mindset means there are limited opportunities for children to incorporate their full linguistic ...

The aim of this study was to explore collective agency of early education policymakers in a period of change.  Our research questions were: What characterizes the collective agency of policy makers in early childhood education in a multilingual context? What are their agentic approach...

The study explores family tensions and discursive contradictions that emerge from the nexus of heritage language learning (HLL), education, and the family. Two interviews with Russian-speaking divorced mothers and the guidelines for HLL in the Finnish National Core Curriculum for basi...

The multilingualism of pupils runs counter to nation-state organised and monolingually oriented education systems. This social factor causes not only home language maintenance and development, but also educational disadvantages for all those children who deviate from the dominant monolingual norm. A...

This paper discusses the preliminary findings of a transnational quantitative study examining factors impacting home language transmission, focusing specifically on social and affective variables. Thus, the study contributes to the slowly growing literature adopting quantitative approaches, in a fie...

The UK, and perhaps particularly England, is often seen as a nation subscribing wholeheartedly to a monolingual mindset. The national curriculum remains resolutely monolingual, despite linguistic diversity in primary classrooms having increased rapidly. Current research and anecdotal evidence s...