This literature review on teachers' beliefs about English language learners (ELLs) in
mainstream classrooms is organized into three sections:(a) inservice teachers' existing …

Research in the field of minority language maintenance and loss regards the family as the
central driving force in children's language socialization within the context of both minority …

The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to
bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all …

Language policy is all about choices. If you are bilingual or plurilingual, you have to choose
which language to use. Even if you speak only one language, you have choices of dialects …

This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in
childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens …

The family has come into sharp focus in recent sociolinguistic inquiry, spearheaded by the
burgeoning field of “Family Language Policy”. While the name was originally coined by …

This is a vocabulary research manual. It aims to give you the background knowledge
necessary to design rigorous and effective research studies into the behavior of L1 and L2 …

In this study we explore Korean immigrant parents' attitudes toward heritage language
maintenance for their children and their efforts to help their children maintain Korean as their …

This paper examines teachers' attitudes towards their students' heritage language
maintenance and their engagement in classroom practices that may or may not affirm the …

The very notion of heritage language (HL) is a sociocultural one insofar as it is defined in
terms of a group of people who speak it. Heritage languages also have a sociocultural …