August 16, 2021 08:30 AM - August 16, 2022 12:00 Noon(Europe/Amsterdam)
20210816T083020210816T1200Europe/AmsterdamS147 | ReN: Rethinking language policy: the importance of the home in language maintenance and development
This symposium, organized by the AILA Research Network on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development (HOLM ReN), will focus on language policy. While language policies are established and applied at all levels of society, we will pay particular attention to the home as a site where language policies are negotiated and contested, as families are the principal language managers and ultimately responsible for intergenerational language transmission or shift. Papers may examine top-down processes, e.g. how families as micro-level actors react to external macro-level forces, or they may illustrate bottom-up processes, e.g. how home language ideologies and practices might impact more generally on language policy and planning at the macro level. We are particularly interested in the role social and affective factors play in these dynamic processes.
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This symposium, organized by the AILA Research Network on Social and Affective Factors in Home Language Maintenance and Development (HOLM ReN), will focus on language policy. While language policies are established and applied at all levels of society, we will pay particular attention to the home as a site where language policies are negotiated and contested, as families are the principal language managers and ultimately responsible for intergenerational language transmission or shift. Papers may examine top-down processes, e.g. how families as micro-level actors react to external macro-level forces, or they may illustrate bottom-up processes, e.g. how home language ideologies and practices might impact more generally on language policy and planning at the macro level. We are particularly interested in the role social and affective factors play in these dynamic processes.
Rethinking language policy: The home and the familyView Abstract Watch Recording 0Featured08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
"Language policy became a field for research when sociolinguists tackled the language problems of nations becoming independent in the 1960s. Classical language policy focused on the nation-state. State policy is often blocked by variations in language policy at other levels, as well as by factors such as wars, disease, poverty and corruption. Increasing attention has been paid to the home . Starting with the individual one should consider policy in the home, school, work, and other levels, and only then consider national policies. The home is central, but other levels play a significant part in a complex phenomenon.
Presenters Bernard Spolsky Professor Emeritus, Bar-Ilan University
Intergenerational language transmission in Quebec: Patterns and predictors in the light of provincial language planningView Abstract Watch Recording 0StandardAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This paper presents a sociolinguistic study conducted among 274 parents of different mother tongues in Quebec, to investigate the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French. The paper discusses the implications of the findings for provincial language planning to ensure the maintenance of French in Quebec.
Presenters Ruth Kircher Researcher, Mercator European Research Centre On Multilingualism And Language Learning / Fryske Akademy
The Effect of Parental Agency in Home Language Policy: The Case of Iranians in Istanbul.View Abstract Watch Recording 0Standard08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This paper presents a linguistic ethnographic study focusing on an Iranian lifestyle migrant family living in Istanbul. Data from microethnographic analyses will report on the family’s linguistic practices in Persian, Turkish, and English and how they approach language policy in a domestic setting.
Is the Mother Tongue Still the Mother’s Tongue in Multilingual China? – A Story of the Blang LanguageView Abstract Watch Recording 0StandardAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This work investigated the patterns of language maintenance and shift in the Blang speech community with a particular focus on the family domain. The findings contribute to the current understanding of LMS in the family domain by highlighting the interaction between different social actors in the family unit.
Presenters Sixuan Wang University Of New South Wales
Back and Forth: Sojourning as an organised family language management strategyView Abstract Watch Recording 0Standard08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This study investigates the experiences of Australian Taiwanese-background parents and children, who sojourn to the parents’ homeland during school holidays to improve their linguistic and cultural skills. We explore outcomes of this language management activity, focusing on the mothers’ aims and children’s linguistic development and their identity formation.
Presenters Andrea C. Schalley Symposium Organiser/Moderator (S109 & S147); Presenter, Karlstad UniversitySusana Eisenchlas Symposium Organiser/Moderator (S109 & 147)/ Presenter (S147), Griffith University Co-authors
Through the child's eye: collaborative family language policy developmentView Abstract Watch Recording 0StandardAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This presentation reports on a 2.5 auto-ethnographic study where mother and son (aged 6.6-9 throughout the study) jointly researched their language practices and attitudes towards German and English in the home. The session will be co-presented by both parent and child (aged 13 at time of conference)
A hyphenated belonging: Parental linguistic identity shaping plurilingual family language policyView Abstract Watch Recording 0FocusedAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This paper presents a case study of linguistic identities within a Korean / Gaelic / English-speaking family, drawn from a larger study of isolated intermarried families in regional areas of NSW, Australia. The connection between parental linguistic identity and family language policy is explored.
Presenters Elizabeth Ellis Adjunct Associate Professor (Applied Linguistics), University Of New England Co-authors
Vicki Knox Principal Research Assistant, University Of New England
Family Language Policies of Saudi Student Families in the UK: the importance of the home environmentView Abstract FocusedAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
Family language policy and dialect maintenance in Lithuanian diasporaView Abstract Watch Recording 0FocusedAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
Based on the data of two large scale national research projects funded to investigate the linguistic behaviour and identity in Lithuanian diaspora the paper will deal with the issues of family language policy and dialect maintenance. The paper analyses the data of qualitative in-depth interviews.
On the Possible Interplay of Macro and Micro Level Forces in Family Language Policy: The Example from Three Different ContextsView Abstract Watch Recording 0FocusedAILA Symposium08:30 AM - 12:00 Noon (Europe/Amsterdam) 2021/08/16 06:30:00 UTC - 2022/08/16 10:00:00 UTC
This study investigated family language policy (FLP) practices at home among Russian heritage and majority language speakers and their children in Cyprus, Estonia and Sweden. We connect the analysis of top-down discourses on Russian at the national level with an analysis of bottom-up reactions to them based on individual FLPs.
Presenters Natalia Ringblom Stockholm University | Dalarna University Co-authors Anastassia Zabrodskaja Professor Of Intercultural Communication, Tallinn University
Bernard Spolsky
Ruth Kircher
Elanur Sönmez
Sixuan Wang
Andrea C. Schalley
Susana Eisenchlas
Grace Yue Qi
Sabine Little
Elizabeth Ellis
Meilute Ramoniene
Natalia Ringblom
Anastassia Zabrodskaja 
