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Makes an important contribution to how we understand wellbeing in multilingual family settings.
This book investigates transnational families’ ideological language motivations, strategies and experiences. The rich interview and observation data from fourteen multilingual families living in Wales and Finland provide insight into the challenges of managing national minority and majority languages alongside a foreign language at home.
It considers the perspectives of parents and children, identifying the strategies used to manage these languages and the effects of these strategies on family wellbeing, particularly children’s self-esteem, identity and sense of capability. Including a variety of Family Language Policy prototypes and language communities, it suggests adjustments to parental strategies and promotes awareness of positive psychology and peer support for language communities.
This book will be of interest to researchers and policymakers in language education and multilingualism as well as parents engaged with Family Language Policy.
This volume makes a unique contribution to the study of family language policy, focusing on multilingualism and wellbeing in diverse families from two officially bilingual areas – Cardiff and Helsinki. The engaging account of parents’ and children’s language ideologies, strategies, and experiences vividly reveals the rewards and challenges of multilingual language transmission.
Kaisa Pankakoski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy and an Associate Researcher with the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit at Cardiff University, UK. She is the Founder of the Finnish Saturday School in Cardiff and her research explores multilingualism, wellbeing and Family Language Policy.
Chapter One: Introducing the Study
Chapter Two: Introducing the Background
Chapter Three: Why Raise Multilingual Children? Ideological Motivations for Language Transmission
Chapter Four: 'How are we going to do this?' Parental Language Strategies
Chapter Five: A Struggle or a Breeze? Parental Experiences Regarding Family Wellbeing and FLP
Chapter Six: Identity, Awareness and Agency: Children's Perceptions and Wellbeing
Chapter Seven: Discussion and Conclusions