Who decides the home language? A look at multilingual families
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4179700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Tuominen (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 140 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of the Sociology of Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-2516 • E-ISSN: 1613-3668 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ijsl.1999.140.59 |
| OpenAlex | W2080211831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
| References cited | 6 |
In this paper, I look at how multilingual parents attempt to transmit and maintain their native languages at home with their children. The 18 multilingual Jamilies in my study spoke mostly English at home even when both parents shared the same non-English language as their native language. Myfindings suggest that the children in these families are often the ones who decide what the family's home language will be. The parents' educational and socioeconomic statuses also influence the shift toward English language usage because poor and less-educated parents have few resources to help them with home language maintenance
First language · Home language · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Demography · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 61 |
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| Citations per year | 2,44 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 54 |