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Aspirational Family Language Policy
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Seals, Corinne A.; Beliaeva, Natalia – Language Policy, 2023
The current article applies interactional sociolinguistic discourse analysis to interviews with three parents of Ukrainian families living in New Zealand to further complexify what we know about Family Language Policy (FLP) and language transmission. More specifically, this article theorizes what we call "Aspirational FLP"--when the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Language Usage, Native Language
1.5-Generation Korean-New Zealanders' Perceptions of Bilingualism, Heritage Language Competence, and Identity
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Mi Yung Park – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This study explores four 1.5-generation Korean-New Zealanders' perceptions of bilingualism, heritage language (HL) competence, and identity. Drawing on interview data, the study shows that the participants were strongly connected to their ethnic group and strove to accept and strengthen their hyphenated Korean-New Zealander identities through…
Descriptors: Native Language, Bilingualism, Self Concept, Asians
Heritage Language Policies of the Iranian Diaspora in New Zealand
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Gharibi, Khadij; Seals, Corinne – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2020
The present study investigates immigrant parents' family language policies in regards to their children's heritage language development and maintenance by utilizing Spolsky's theoretical model on which research on family language policy (FLP) considerably draw. Following the three core components of the FLP model, Iranian parents' beliefs,…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Language Attitudes
Journeys across Educational and Cultural Borders: International Postgraduate Students with Young Children
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Loveridge, Judith; Doyle, Stephanie; Faamanatu-Eteuati, Niusila – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
There is substantial research about international postgraduate students but little research about their experiences as parents or their children's experiences. We focus on four postgraduate international students with young children navigating early childhood education and care in New Zealand. A narrative analysis, informed by socio-cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Parents
Measuring Child Poverty: New League Tables of Child Poverty in the World's Rich Countries. Innocenti Report Card 10
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Adamson, Peter – UNICEF, 2012
This report sets out the latest internationally comparable data on child deprivation and relative child poverty. Taken together, these two different measures offer the best currently available picture of child poverty across the world's wealthiest nations. Previous reports in this series have shown that failure to protect children from poverty is…
Descriptors: Poverty, Children, Foreign Countries, Family Income
Macro-Level Policy and Micro-Level Planning: Afrikaans-Speaking Immigrants in New Zealand
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Barkhuizen, Gary; Knoch, Ute – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2006
This article reports on a study which investigated the language lives of Afrikaans-speaking South African immigrants in New Zealand. Particularly, it focuses on their awareness of and attitudes to language policy in both South Africa and New Zealand, and how these influence their own and their family's language practices. Narrative interviews with…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Speech Communication, Language Attitudes, Official Languages