Exploring the efficacy of children's media use in enhancing L2 vocabulary acquisition

T Saleem, BSA Khan - International Journal of Early Years …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The current study investigates how educational media influences the early bilingual
language development of Pakistani children. An exploratory sequential research design was …

Parental emotionality and power relations in heritage language maintenance: experiences of Chinese and African immigrant families in Australia

Y Wang, V Williams Tetteh, S Dube - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Emotionality is increasingly given prominence in the field of language acquisition and
socialization in migration contexts. This cross-sectional study explores the emotional …

Digitally mediated code-switching in transnational families in Australia: Fathers and children

P Romanowski - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The article focuses on Polish-speaking families residing in Australia and their digitally
mediated communication practices. Against the backdrop of social changes influencing …

Affordances of code-switching in Polish–Australian families: An exploration of language ideologies, practices and management

P Romanowski - International Journal of Bilingualism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives: As there remains a paucity of research into the use of communication
strategies in Polish transnational communities, this paper seeks to delineate the code …

Changing discourses of Chinese language maintenance in Australia: unpacking language ideologies of first-generation Chinese immigrant parents from People's …

Y Wang, J Li - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Parental agency of their children's language learning is often determined by their
perceptions of the significance of the language in both family and society levels. Based on a …

Unpacking children's perspectives of multilingualism through language portraits: insights from a Polish pre-school in Australia

P Romanowski, E Wąsikiewicz-Firlej - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper delves into the dynamics of language-based agency of six-year-old children
raised in transnational families in Australia. The members of the focal group are four pre …

Child agency in early language development and learning: introduction to special issue

M Schwartz - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This introductory paper seeks to demonstrate how the articles in this volume enhance our
understanding of child agency in both language development at home and language …

School leaders as projective agents: online spaces for heritage languages during COVID-19

J Hancock, A Hancock - Current Issues in Language Planning, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article reports on a national survey of complementary school providers in Scotland to
gain insights into their perspectives of the abrupt transition to online learning spaces during …

'I need to learn Vietnamese to speak to my grandma': the place of family relationships in family language policy

TMT Bui, A Filipi, M Turner - International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study focuses on family relationships and their potential to successfully impact family
language policy. The interview data with two bilingual Vietnamese immigrant families in …

Language ideologies of three intercultural and interlingual parent couples in Canada: an examination of intervening factors that prevent active multilingualism for their …

J Tine - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper presents the family language policies of three intercultural parent couples in
Canada. Drawing upon a larger study of their perceptions of childhood and childrearing, and …