Turkish Heritage Families in Sweden: Language Practices and Family Language Policy

Autor/in	Bohnacker, Ute
Titel	Turkish Heritage Families in Sweden: Language Practices and Family Language Policy
Quelle	In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 43 (2022) 9, S.861-873 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bohnacker, Ute)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-4632
DOI	10.1080/01434632.2022.2041646
Schlagwörter	Turkish; Swedish; Language Usage; Family Relationship; Bilingualism; Parent Child Relationship; Sibling Relationship; Story Telling; Story Reading; Native Language; Parent Attitudes; Language Attitudes; Parent Background; Educational Attainment; Ethnicity; Preschool Children; Preschool Education; Family Environment; Second Language Learning; Language Proficiency; Language Maintenance; Language Planning; Language Minorities; Foreign Countries; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Türkisch; Schwedisch; Sprachgebrauch; Bilingualismus; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Elternverhalten; Sprachverhalten; Elternhaus; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Ethnizität; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Familienmilieu; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachpflege; Sprachwechsel; Sprachminderheit; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	This paper explores family language policy in Turkish-speaking families in Sweden. Questionnaires were administered to the parents of 105 Turkish/Swedish children (age 4-7), targeting family language practices (including parent-parent, parent-child, child-parent, child-and-sibling conversation and language-fostering activities such as joint book reading, storytelling and mother tongue tuition), and parental language beliefs and attitudes. Despite much diversity in family types concerning parents' education, country of birth, native language and ethnic affiliation (e.g. Kurdish), common traits emerge: There is a strong focus on the transmission of Turkish in the home, in the face of early and extensive Swedish pre-school attendance. Parents mostly speak Turkish with the child. However, Sweden-born parents report higher uses of Swedish in the home, and sibling interaction also drives a shift towards Swedish. Parental education appears to affect Turkish joint reading activities. Most parents consider proficiency in Turkish and Swedish as equally important for their children. Parents who rank Turkish higher do not necessarily show more maintenance efforts, pointing to some inconsistency between attitudes and practices. Overall, the family language practices observed indicate strong bilingual ideologies and strong language maintenance ideologies, in line with Swedish official state-level language policy, which supports bilingualism and minority language maintenance. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01