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Parents' Assessment of Their Preschool Children's Bilingual Development in the Context of Family Language Policy
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Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2012
Parents' assessment of children's development in the first and the second language is an essential part of their family language policy (FLP) and an important component of parent-child communication. This paper presents a pilot study focused on Russian-speaking immigrant parents' assessment of their children's language knowledge in Russian as a…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Preschool Education, Second Language Learning
Immigrant Parents' Choice of a Bilingual versus Monolingual Kindergarten for Second-Generation Children: Motives, Attitudes, and Factors
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Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark; Breitkopf, Anna – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2010
This study investigated how immigrant parents describe and explain their family language policy concerning their child's preschool bilingual development, and also explored the factors linked to the parents' choice of bilingual or monolingual kindergarten for their child. The study design was based on a comparison of 2 groups of parents: those who…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Ideology, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries
Yiddish in Israel: A case-Study of Efforts to Revise a Monocentric Language Policy
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Fishman, Joshua A.; Fishman, David E. – International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 1974
Descriptors: Hebrew, Language Planning, Language Usage, Monolingualism