Can family language policy predict linguistic, socio-emotional and cognitive child and family outcomes? A systematic review

I Hollebeke, E Struys, O Agirdag - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Multilingual families face decisions about the linguistic upbringing of their children. These
decisions shape their family language policy (FLP) which potentially impacts the children …

Family Language Policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism

RL Gomes - Multilingual Margins: A journal of multilingualism from …, 2018 - epubs.ac.za
Family language policy (FLP) has been establishing itself as a field in the past decade. Yet,
much of the scholarly debate around family multilingualism has remained within the …

Using a 'Family Language Policy'lens to explore the dynamic and relational nature of child agency

C Smith‐Christmas - Children & Society, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This article contributes to a dialogue between childhood studies and the sociolinguistic
subfield 'Family Language Policy'('FLP'). The article argues that the two fields provide …

A Bourdieusian perspective on child agency in family language policy

M Revis - International Journal of Bilingual Education and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper investigates child agency in Ethiopian and Colombian refugee families in New
Zealand. Emerging scholarship has highlighted ways in which children's actions may …

11 Child agency and home language maintenance

C Smith-Christmas - Handbook of home language maintenance and …, 2020 - degruyter.com
This chapter discusses child agency and its role in home language maintenance. The
concept of child agency has been orbiting “Family Language Policy”“FLP”(King, Fogle, and …

'You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon': family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK

K Gharibi, SH Mirvahedi - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
With a focus on an under-studied group of immigrants in the UK, this paper examines Iranian
families' language ideologies and practices at home in relation to Persian acquisition and …

What do children think of their own bilingualism? Exploring bilingual children's attitudes and perceptions

T Peace-Hughes, P De Lima, B Cohen… - International …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: This paper explores children's experiences and perceptions of their
own bilingualism in two contexts in Scotland, UK: a primary school with a high proportion of …

The interrelationship of family language policies, emotions, socialisation practices and language management strategies

S Karpava - Journal of Home Language Research, 2022 - clok.uclan.ac.uk
Multilingual families in immigrant/minority language contact settings face various challenges
that are related to their affective and emotional domains, as well as to their well-being. This …

'And all of a sudden, it became my rescue': language and agency in transnational families in Norway

MA Obojska, J Purkarthofer - International Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families
living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on …

Including children's voice in family language policy: an exploration of the tensions between mothers' and children's language beliefs

TMT Bui, M Turner, A Filipi - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article discusses family language policy and the tensions between mothers' and
children's language beliefs in two Vietnamese immigrant families in Melbourne. These …