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Kircher, Ruth – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The study presented here is the first empirical investigation of the patterns and predictors of the intergenerational transmission of French in Quebec. An online questionnaire was used to gather data from 274 parents from different mother tongue (L1) groups: L1 French, L1 English, L1 French and English, and L1 Other. The results show that L1…
Descriptors: Language Planning, French, Parent Attitudes, Native Language
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Ballinger, Susan; Brouillard, Melanie; Ahooja, Alexa; Kircher, Ruth; Polka, Linda; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Family Relationship, French, Language Attitudes
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Kircher, Ruth – Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics / Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquee, 2014
This paper presents a 2007 study that was conducted amongst 147 young anglophone, francophone and allophone Montrealers in order to shed light on their attitudes towards English and French in terms of status and solidarity. The study made use of both a questionnaire and a matched-guise experiment. The findings indicate that while a certain amount…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, French, English, Foreign Countries