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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"bilingual families"”.
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Toward a theory of positive psychology in supporting child-centred family language policy
… home language maintenance in transnational bilingual families with young children learning two or more languages simultaneously at home. This study aims to understand and describe how FLP is co�constructed by the members of transnational bilingual families who have sought to build a …
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“They know exactly with whom to speak German and with whom English”: Grade-R children's language and literacy practices in the context of the linguistic and literacy repertoires and ideologies of four Cape Town bilingual families with German as a heritage language
… the population speaking at least two languages. Bilingual/multilingual upbringing is the reality of most South African children, and the transfer and maintenance of heritage languages is an important topic in the field of language and literacy studies. A range of different factors come into play …
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A Double Case Study of Latino College Presidents: What Younger Generations Can Learn From Them
… experiences growing up and being educated in bilingual families. The researcher is a bilingual Latina who teaches high school ESL, and as she taught for her first few years, she read the interviews again and again—a practice recommended in constructivist grounded theory (Mills, Bonner, & …
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Shifting family bilingualism: two South African case studies
… home language practices of two Afrikaans/English bilingual families, living in two middle-class English-dominant neighbourhoods, with the youngest children attending an English-medium primary school. In this study, I investigate if these families maintain their existing Afrikaans-dominant …
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Speech and Language Therapy workforce diversity: Three studies using an increasing Transformative Research framework
… to explore the experiences and practices of bilingual paediatric SLTs in the UK (n=19) through the lens of CHAT-ICF, a theoretical framework that I developed to conceptualise the activities of professionals working in the field of disability. I used Reflexive Thematic Analysis and mapped …
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Effects of Language Shift on Families and Young Children
… effects there are on children from non-English families when these families make decisions about the language use in their homes. These decisions may be intentional or be a result of situations that evolve over time. Nevertheless young children in the home will be impacted. Some factors that …