Parents' Discourses about Language Strategies for Their Children's Preschool Bilingual Development

Autor/inn/en	Schwartz, Mila; Moin, Victor; Leikin, Mark
Titel	Parents' Discourses about Language Strategies for Their Children's Preschool Bilingual Development
Quelle	In: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 5 (2011) 3, S.149-166 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1559-5692
Schlagwörter	Interviews; Monolingualism; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Second Language Learning; Bilingualism; Discourse Analysis; Bilingual Education; Russian; Language Maintenance; Intervention; Parent Attitudes; Language Acquisition; Preschool Education; Preschool Children; Semitic Languages; Israel; USSR + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Bilingualismus; Diskursanalyse; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Russisch; Sprachpflege; Elternverhalten; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; Arabisch; Hebräisch
Abstract	The study focused on immigrant parents' discourses about strategies for their children's preschool bilingual development and education. The article investigated how immigrant parents described and explained these strategies. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with 4 families. The 8 parents were Russian-speaking immigrants to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Analysis of the data showed that all the parents desired their children to maintain the heritage language and to acquire the host language. At the same time, they were realistically skeptical of achieving balanced bilingualism in their children's language development. Nevertheless, most reported clearly elaborated intervention plans to support the children's balanced bilingualism. The regulation of language interaction with the child at home occupied a central place in parents' strategies for their children's bilingual development; however, some chose bilingual kindergarten for their children, whereas others chose monolingual programs. To explain and justify this choice, parents adduced different motives and representations about trajectories of children's bilingual development. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10