Abstracts Archive

This study investigated the family language policy of minority and immigrant families in Cyprus. The participants in our study were 30 immigrant and minority families in Cyprus with various first language backgrounds, namely Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Romanian, English and Arabic, and ...

In this autoethnographic exploration, I drew upon my insider-outsider positionality (Dwyer and Buckle 2009) as a first-generation immigrant mother of a preschool-age Chinese American child, Zixuan, and also a researcher specialized in multilingualism to examine how our family language policy and lan...

In this presentation, I will focus on how parents and children interact as agents through realization of home language strategies and practices.

This paper investigates the success story of language maintenance in Arab families in Iran. Taking Fishman's (1991) emphasis on micro face-to-face interactions in language maintenance processes as our point of departure, we argue that, for such to happen, families need to live in a sociolinguistic m...

Besides the internal factors including parental decisions and child agency, the broader economic, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts also have a great impact on FLP. Multiple studies indicate that children's transition to school can be a turning point for both family linguistic practices a...

Whilst discussions around language policy in Northern Ireland (NI) primarily focus on its two indigenous languages: Irish (Gaelic) and Ulster-Scots, many other languages are spoken in this geopolitical context, especially those of the transnational communities. Having been settled since th...

This paper describes ideologies of parents, Russian-speaking urban middle-class Kazakhs, on schooling their children in Kazakh. The choice of Kazakh as MOI is typically presented as the only way for children whose home language is Russian to learn Kazakh, which is viewed as required for social mobil...