Children Learning Multilingually in Home, Community and School Contexts in Britain

Conteh, Jean; Riasat, Saiqa; Begum, Shila

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“…Despite the relative novelty of conceptualisations such as translingual practice (Canagarajah 2013), polylingual languaging (Jørgensen 2008;Møller and Jørgensen 2009), metrolingualism (Otsuji and Pennycook 2010;Pennycook and Otsuji 2015), translanguaging (García and Li Wei 2014;Li Wei 2018, Otheguy et al 2015, and Spracherleben (Busch 2015), scholars (e.g. Haugen 1972;Khubchandani 1983) have discussed this for many decades, which makes the little engagement of FLP literature with these issues (but see Conteh et al 2013) even more intriguing. It should be highlighted, however, that the employment of these notions is not regarded as a panacea (see Jaspers and Madsen 2016;Orman 2013;and Pennycook 2016).…”

Section: Diversity Of Languages Geographical Locations Family Confimentioning

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Family Language Policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism

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Family language policy (FLP) has been establishing itself as a field in the past decade. Yet, much of the scholarly debate around family multilingualism has remained within the boundaries imposed by Western-centric epistemologies. In order to address this issue, this article reviews FLP studies published between 2008 and 2017, and discusses accomplishments and limitations of recent publications. The main argument presented here is that a critical approach to family multilingualism might contribute to the development of FLP in an unexplored direction. More specifically, this paper shows how drawing on a decolonial approach allows for an express engagement with debates that have only been marginally tapped into in current FLP scholarship, for instance, the intersectional dimension of social categorisations such as social class, race, and gender. Furthermore, a decolonial approach provides a robust frame to examine transnational practices by reconciling perspectives that tend to privilege either the material basis of the economic relations of production, or the cultural domain as a locus where these relations gain meaning. Finally, a decolonial approach to family multilingualism takes a step towards redressing the extant underrepresentation of southern theories in sociolinguistics.

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“…Despite the relative novelty of conceptualisations such as translingual practice , polylingual languaging (Jørgensen 2008;Møller and Jørgensen 2009), metrolingualism , translanguaging (García and Li Wei 2014;Li Wei 2018, Otheguy et al 2015, and Spracherleben (Busch 2015), scholars (e.g. Khubchandani 1983) have discussed this for many decades, which makes the little engagement of FLP literature with these issues (but see Conteh et al 2013) even more intriguing. It should be highlighted, however, that the employment of these notions is not regarded as a panacea (see Jaspers and Madsen 2016;Orman 2013;and Pennycook 2016).…”

Section: Diversity Of Languages Geographical Locations Family Configu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Omphile and his soccer ball: Colonialism, methodology, translanguaging research FINEX NDHLOVU Comments on Omphile and his soccer ball: Colonialism, methodology, translanguaging research ABA APPIA AMFO, ALAN CARNEIRO, DON KULICK, KATHLEEN HEUGH, LYNN MARIO T. MENDEZES DE SOUZA, MANUEL GUISSEMO, KANAVILLIL RAJAGOPALAN, TORUN REITE, AND ZANNIE BOCK Can the other be heard? Response to commentaries on 'Omphile and his soccer ball' FINEX NDHLOVUFamily language policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism RAFAEL LOMEU GOMES

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“…Despite the relative novelty of conceptualisations such as translingual practice (Canagarajah 2013), polylingual languaging (Jørgensen 2008;Møller and Jørgensen 2009), metrolingualism (Otsuji and Pennycook 2010;Pennycook and Otsuji 2015), translanguaging (García and Li Wei 2014;Li Wei 2018, Otheguy et al 2015, and Spracherleben (Busch 2015), scholars (e.g. Haugen 1972;Khubchandani 1983) have discussed this for many decades, which makes the little engagement of FLP literature with these issues (but see Conteh et al 2013) even more intriguing. It should be highlighted, however, that the employment of these notions is not regarded as a panacea (see Jaspers and Madsen 2016;Orman 2013;and Pennycook 2016).…”

Section: Diversity Of Languages Geographical Locations Family Configu...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Language Policy ten years on: A critical approach to family multilingualism

Gomes

2018

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Family language policy (FLP) has been establishing itself as a field in the past decade. Yet, much of the scholarly debate around family multilingualism has remained within the boundaries imposed by Western-centric epistemologies. In order to address this issue, this article reviews FLP studies published between 2008 and 2017, and discusses accomplishments and limitations of recent publications. The main argument presented here is that a critical approach to family multilingualism might contribute to the development of FLP in an unexplored direction. More specifically, this paper shows how drawing on a decolonial approach allows for an express engagement with debates that have only been marginally tapped into in current FLP scholarship, for instance, the intersectional dimension of social categorisations such as social class, race, and gender. Furthermore, a decolonial approach provides a robust frame to examine transnational practices by reconciling perspectives that tend to privilege either the material basis of the economic relations of production, or the cultural domain as a locus where these relations gain meaning. Finally, a decolonial approach to family multilingualism takes a step towards redressing the extant underrepresentation of southern theories in sociolinguistics.

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Children Learning Multilingually in Home, Community and School Contexts in Britain

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