Language policy and planning for heritage language maintenance
A scoping review
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16768754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hui Wang (0000-0001-5109-8691, UNSW Sydney), Hui Ling Wang (UNSW Sydney), Anikó Hato (0000-0003-1143-0041, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 612-632 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Issues in Language Planning (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4208 • E-ISSN: 1747-7506 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664208.2024.2341203 |
| OpenAlex | W4394856181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 49 |
The study of language maintenance and shift (LMS) has attracted a large body of empirical work in language policy and planning (LPP) contexts, including allochthonous (immigrant) and autochthonous (indigenous) languages. However, some critical ontological questions that relate to the scope and terminology of language maintenance studies remain unanswered, and there seems to be a lack of consistency in the definitions of the relevant terms, such as what ‘heritage’ language refers to, whose heritage it is when a language can be classified as a heritage language, and what ‘language’ is at all. Therefore, this review summarises existing literature on LPP for language maintenance by employing a scoping review methodology, providing an overview of empirical studies of LPP in migration context over the past two decades (2001-2023), focusing on terminology, geographical settings, research focus and methods. The findings reveal that most studies (66.3%) use the term ‘heritage language’ to refer to the ‘language of transnational minorities’ among other terms. The results also highlight geographical gaps and imbalances in the literature, calling for more LPP studies from South American and East Asian contexts. In addition, further investigations are needed to explore the transnational and translocal aspects of language maintenance
Geography · Heritage language · Indigenous · Language planning · Language policy · Language revitalization · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Terminology · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Between heritage and the here-and-now
High identity, low practice? Family language policy and ethnic language transmission orientation among minority families in China
Ethnic community languages in contemporary social media advertisements in Tanzania
Heritage language, identity, and belonging in contexts of forced migration
Mapping and tracing shifts in family language policy research on heritage language maintenance (2020–2024)
How Effective Are the Different Family Policies for Heritage Language Maintenance and Transmission in Australia
Trilingual families’ border thinking in the United States
No family Is an Island
Genealogy-as-Pedagogy for Afro-Descendant Communities in Costa Rica, Panama, and Belize
Planning and teaching heritage languages in the translocal and digital space
Turkish as a heritage language
Managing Decline or Building Inheritance? Policy Pathways to Sustain Tamil in Urban and Migrant India
Language and Cultural Identity
Mapping family language policy on Chinese heritage language development in immigrant families
Repertoire on the move
Multilingual Mothering
Maintaining heritage languages across generations
When East meets East
Chronotopes in heritage language maintenance
A chronotopic-scalar approach to family language policy research
National and ethnic minorities
Language Maintenance and Shift
Language Management
Language Planning
Handbook of Home Language Maintenance and Development
The Sociolinguistics of Globalization
Is the heritage language like a second language?
Family language policy
Language Planning in Local Contexts
The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language
Language attitudes, practices and identity in the new Lithuanian diaspora
Speaking in (Whose) Tongue
The role of polymedia in heritage language maintenance
Primary and secondary factors in language maintenance in a medium-sized community language
A deliberate language policy or a perceived lack of agency
‘Half of who you are’
Bilingual Parenting as Good Parenting
Whose heritage? What inheritance
Heritage language maintenance and management across three generations
Singapore Teochew as a heritage language
Family language policy in retrospect
Invisible and visible language planning
Family language policy, transnationalism, and the diaspora community of San Lucas Quiaviní of Oaxaca, Mexico
Post-Soviet Language Policy and the Language Utilization Patterns of Kyivan Youth
Language exposure in early bilingual and trilingual acquisition
Commodification of the Chinese language
Individual agency in language-in-education policy
When ‘home languages’ become ‘holiday languages’
Language in multilingual families during the Covid-19 pandemic in Norway
The Malays of Brunei
Family language policy in an endangered heritage language context
Intergenerational differences in family language policy of Turkish families in the Netherlands
Family language policies, reported language use and proficiency in Russian – Hebrew bilingual children in Israel
Contextualising the Russian to Hebrew language shift in three generations of Russian Israelis
Turkish heritage families in Sweden
What prompts early childhood professionals to proffer advice to multilingual families? Investigating the association between language policy and perceived self-efficacy
Home language policy of second-generation Turkish families in the Netherlands
Heritage Languages in America
The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities
Scoping studies
Family Language Policy
The Study of Heritage Language Development From a Bilingualism and Social Justice Perspective
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |