Family Language Policies In A Multilingual World: Opportunities, Challenges, And Consequences (Esl & Applied Linguistics Professional Series)

Through case studies from around the world, this book illustrates the opportunities and challenges facing families negotiating the issues of language maintenance and language learning in the home, The contributors utilize various ethnographic research tools to explore linguistic ideologies and practices of the family members in the home, illuminating how such ideologies and practices are shaped by macro-level societal processes in a range of diverse settings around the world.

• | Author: John Macalister, Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138666041
• | ISBN-13: 9781138666047