Successful Family Language Policy

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.

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1. Achieving Success in Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction.- Part I Family Language Ideology, Practices and Management in Interaction with Mainstream Educational and Bilingual Education . 2. Parents' Choice of a Bilingual Hebrew-Arabic Kindergarten for their children. 3. The Role of Family Background in Early Bilingual Education: The Finnish-Russian Experience. 4. Children Learning Multilingually in Home, Community and School Contexts in Britain.- Part II Family Language Policy as a Joint Social Venture.
   5. Love, Language and Little Ones: Successes and Stresses for Mothers Raising Bilingual Children in Exogamous Relationships. 6. Family Language Policy and Management in a Changed Socio-Political Situation: Russians and Russian Speakers in Lithuania. 7. To Make the Root Stronger: Language Policies and Experiences of Successful Multilingual Intermarried Families with Adolescent Children in Tallinn. 8. Family Language Policy fromthe Children's Point of View: Bilingualism in Place and Time.- Part III The Interaction Patterns between Parents and their Children in their Shared Language and Literacy Practices.
      9. Bimodal Bilingual Families: The Negotiation of Communication Practices between Deaf Parents and their Hearing Children. 10. Unity in Discourse, Diversity in Practice: The One Person One Language Policy in Bilingual Families. 11. Happylingual: A Family Project for Enhancing and Balancing Multilingual Development. 12. Negotiating Family Language Policy: Doing Homework.