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Family Language Policy: Promoting Partnership in the Early Years to Support Heritage Languages

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In this chapter, Tina Hickey reflects on the significance of wide-ranging changes in family structure and childcare arrangements in the context of Ireland and the Irish language. She considers how parents’ family language choices are affected by the available childcare and education options, which often disadvantage Irish-speaking families, and examines ways to promote partnerships with parents that are supportive of the minority/heritage language as their children progress through the early years of education and into primary schooling.

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Hickey, T.M. (2021). Family Language Policy: Promoting Partnership in the Early Years to Support Heritage Languages. In: Lewis, H., McLeod, W. (eds) Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation. Language and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80189-2_6

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