This paper highlights a current phenomenon reported from preschools placed in multilingual
areas in Sweden, namely that some preschoolers with mutually different language …

In this chapter, I have chosen to write a conceptual introduction to this volume. The chapter
starts with what I consider the general motivation for this volume followed by reasons for …

Although the roots of the field of family language policy (FLP) can be traced about one
hundred years back in time, it was after the seminal article by King, Fogle, and Logan-Terry …

By adopting a tripartite FLP framework, this study aims to explore the agentive role of Polish-
speaking fathers in heritage language maintenance. At the outset, it should be noted that as …

This paper investigates how language ideologies are implicitly constructed and negotiated
in the social interactions between two three-years-old children and their parents in …

The study aimed to take a zoom on differences between young children in the way they
express their language-based agency in learning languages in a preschool bilingual …

The increasing societal and linguistic diversity in schools challenge traditional teaching
approaches and call for pedagogies that cater to the growing number of multilingual pupils …

Although Switzerland is a plurilingual country, most early education and care (ECEC)
institutions are monolingual. Yet, new institutions have recently established English as a …

This paper explores the dynamic and situated nature of language education policy in an
Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centre through the lens of researcher-child …

Drawing on two longitudinal case-studies, this study aimed to identify some salient
characteristics of the agentic behaviour of two young emergent multilinguals in two different …