Determinants of Emotional Language Use Preferences of Ethnolinguistic Minority Children in Antwerp, Belgium

Autor/inn/en	Dekeyser, Graziela; Agirdag, Orhan
Titel	Determinants of Emotional Language Use Preferences of Ethnolinguistic Minority Children in Antwerp, Belgium
Quelle	In: International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 24 (2021) 6, S.892-908 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Dekeyser, Graziela) ORCID (Agirdag, Orhan)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1367-0050
DOI	10.1080/13670050.2018.1523866
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Language Proficiency; Second Language Learning; Multilingualism; Well Being; Indo European Languages; Family Relationship; Language Usage; Elementary School Students; Immigrants; Native Language; Language Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Preferences; Emotional Response; Sibling Relationship; Parent Child Relationship; Acculturation; Foreign Countries; Ethnic Groups; Minority Groups; Cultural Background; Belgium + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Indoeuropäisch; Sprachgebrauch; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Sprachverhalten; Elternverhalten; Emotionales Verhalten; Sibling relations; Geschwisterbeziehung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Akkulturation; Ausland; Ethnie; Ethnische Minderheit; Belgien
Abstract	Within multilingual families, the emotionality of languages can impact individual and family wellbeing. But few studies have investigated the influence of the familial linguistic context in shaping emotional language use preferences. Guided by the Family Language Policy framework, we consider how the language use and the language attitudes of parents, siblings and children themselves affect the emotional language use preferences of children, independent of children's proficiencies in their heritage (HL) and institutional (IL) languages. We analyze unique data from over 500 primary school children (aged 10-12) from Moroccan, Turkish, Eastern-European and mixed descent living in Antwerp, the largest Dutch-speaking city of Belgium. We find that children's emotional preferences are strongly affected by their proficiency in the heritage language but not their proficiency in Dutch, by their parents' and siblings' language practices but not their own practice and by children's attitudes about the relative importance of HL and IL. Overall, the results suggest that emotional language preferences of children reflect children's own acculturation process as well as that of their families. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01