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Kopeliovich, Shulamit – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2010
This article presents an in-depth, small-scale qualitative study of a Hebrew-Russian bilingual family with 8 children, and compares the parents' perspective on the family language policy with their children's evaluation of it. Spolsky's (2004, 2009) model of language policy enables tracing the development of the parents' language…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Planning, Linguistic Theory, Multilingualism
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Schwartz, Mila – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008
The family unit and home domain have been and remain important in heritage language maintenance efforts. There are complex relationships between parental language attitudes, their application in everyday language management activities and the children's knowledge of home language vocabulary. The present large-scale study examined the family policy…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Language Planning, Jews, Language Attitudes