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Achieving Success in Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction

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Successful Family Language Policy

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A family faces various challenges in its attempt to bring up a bilingual or sometimes multilingual child. For example, there are identity conflicts, time pressure restraints in negotiating conflicting language demands and the negative effects of macro-level social processes such as state language policy. Yet, even in these difficult circumstances, some do succeed in holding on to their language and using it with their children. Understanding how immigrant, intermarried, indigenous bilingual and deaf community families achieve success in their family language policy (hereafter FLP) despite very challenging social conditions can help us understand how we can best support others in a similar situation.

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  1. Department of Research and Evaluation Authority, Oranim Academic College of Education, Kiryat Tivon, Israel

    Mila Schwartz

  2. Institute of Estonian Language and Culture, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia

    Anna Verschik

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    Mila Schwartz

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    Anna Verschik

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Schwartz, M., Verschik, A. (2013). Achieving Success in Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction. In: Schwartz, M., Verschik, A. (eds) Successful Family Language Policy. Multilingual Education, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7753-8_1

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