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Victoria Van Oss; Esli Struys; Piet Van Avermaet; Wendelien Vantieghem – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
Early childhood professionals can act as catalysts in encouraging home language maintenance in multilingual families. However, there is a dearth of research on whether these professionals advise parents to speak their home language(s) to their offspring, and furthermore, little is known about what prompts professionals to proffer language advice.…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Self Efficacy, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning
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Anouk Van Der Wildt; Rachida Aghallaj; Fauve De Backer; Michel Vandenbroeck; Orhan Agirdag – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
The literature strongly emphasises the importance of constructive relationships between parents and their children's caregivers. However, minimal empirical research has investigated relationships between language minority parents and caregivers in childcare. This large-scale study seeks to fill this gap by exploring the quality of the language…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Language Minorities, Child Care Centers, Parent Caregiver Relationship