TY - JOUR
T1 - Intersections of official and family language policy in Quebec
AU - Balinger, Susan
AU - Brouillard, Melanie
AU - Ahooja, Alexa
AU - Kircher, Ruth
AU - Polka, Linda
AU - Byers-Heinlein, Krista
PY - 2020/4/15
Y1 - 2020/4/15
N2 - The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language ideologies, practices, and actions taken to maintain a language). Through rounds of deductive and inductive coding and analysis, family language policies regarding English and/or French were compared with policies regarding heritage languages. The participants’ family language policies were further examined in light of Quebec’s official language policy of interculturalism. Findings indicate a complex co-existence of family and official language policy in which parents both support Quebec’s official language policy by converging towards French as a common public language and questioning the policy’s stance on official institutional support for heritage languages.
AB - The current paper describes a study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal, Quebec, who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language ideologies, practices, and actions taken to maintain a language). Through rounds of deductive and inductive coding and analysis, family language policies regarding English and/or French were compared with policies regarding heritage languages. The participants’ family language policies were further examined in light of Quebec’s official language policy of interculturalism. Findings indicate a complex co-existence of family and official language policy in which parents both support Quebec’s official language policy by converging towards French as a common public language and questioning the policy’s stance on official institutional support for heritage languages.
U2 - 10.1080/01434632.2020.1752699
DO - 10.1080/01434632.2020.1752699
M3 - Article
SN - 0143-4632
JO - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
JF - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
ER -