Socialization of Language Through Family Language Policy: A Case Study

• Authors: Orly Kayam , Tijana Hirsch
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Challenges of heritage language maintenance and benefits of bilingualism have been widely acknowledged. Heritage language maintenance research most oft en focuses on heritage languages in English-dominant societies. This paper presents a case study on family language policy experiences, strategies, and outcomes led by an American-born mother in her effort to maintain and promote English, her heritage language, within the home in the Hebrew-dominant environment in Israel

Keywords

EN

bilingualism; heritage language maintenance; family language policy; sociolinguistics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Psychology of Language and Communication
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53-66

Dates

published

2014-05-01

online

2014-05-02

Contributors

author

Orly Kayam

• Zinman College at the Wingate Institute, Netanya

author

Tijana Hirsch

• Department of Language and Literacy Studies, Zinman College at the Wingate Institute, Netanya 42902, Israel

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/plc-2014-0004