The role of fathers in language maintenance and language attrition: the case of Korean–English late bilinguals in New Zealand

Kim, Sun Hee Ok; Starks, Donna

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“…The findings did not totally disconfirm the frequent observation made in the body of literature concerning parental roles in children's language learning and language use. When exploring late English-Korean bilingual adolescents in New Zealand, Kim and Starks (2010) argued that "the language use of Korean mothers is not associated with their children's patterns of language use or their children's L1 proficiency" (p. 285). They went on to claim that "parental language use plays a minimal role in the adolescent L2 acquisition" (p. 285).…”

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The Effect of Multicultural Family Structures on the Language Attitudes of Children and Adolescents

Lee

2018

GEMA

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Attitudes toward languages of bi-and multilingual children and adolescents have not yet become a focus of research. Despite rapid growth in the number of bi-and multilingual children and adolescents across the globe, surprisingly few studies have been devoted to this significant phenomenon. Bi-and multilingualism is a major consequence of immigration and cross-cultural marriages. Regardless of whether cross-cultural marriage is involved, the immigration of families has considerable linguistic consequences on children and adolescents. This paper draws on five case studies in examining the complex factors determining the attitudinal patterns evinced by bi-and multilingual children and adolescents from immigrant families in Thailand. Five households agreed to participate in this research endeavor and data were also collected from surveys, interviews, observations and field notes acquired through the employment of ethnographic investigative methods. The data collected were analyzed through constant comparative method and content analysis. Findings showed consistent patterns for those bi-and multilingual children and adolescents whose Thaispeaking mother was linguistically dominant in a family with an immigrant father speaking a minority language. The results showed that these children were more likely to perceive Thai as more highly regarded language. By contrast, it was also found that Thai was not as highly regarded by the children of parents if both were minority-language speaking immigrants. It was concluded that the family structure of immigrant families is associated with the language attitudes of their children. By the same token, the type of marriage of immigrant families has long-reaching effects on the development of children and adolescents' language attitudes. Moreover, data showed that a non-migrant mother's dominant language played a more influential role in contrast to the minimal role-played by the migrant father's minority language in the development of children and adolescents' language attitudes.

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The Effect of Multicultural Family Structures on the Language Attitudes of Children and Adolescents

Lee

2018

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“…Often, when research has been conducted on family bilingualism, mothers have outnumbered fathers as participants, which suggests that they are the ones who are especially involved in the child's language development (see e.g. Kim and Starks 2010). In Finland, research that focuses on the lived experiences and migration trajectories of Russianspeaking women indicates that 'Russian language and culture serves as a source of identification' for women (Tiaynen-Qadir and Matyska 2020).…”

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Families in flux: at the nexus of fluid family configurations and language practices

Vorobeva

2021

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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Research on multilingualism in the home has approached the family as a fixed unit thus neglecting the dynamic view of the family and its intersection with family language practices. The present study aims to address this gap by focusing on Russian-speaking mothers in Finland who have raised their children bilingually in single-parent as well as in dualparent families. Russian speakers are the largest minority language group in Finland, and their number is constantly growing. The current study is a contribution to the research on family language practices in the Finnish context. It examines the nexus of shifts in family configurations and language practices and explores how the dynamic changes in family constellations shape language practices in four families. The study reveals that creating new kinships leads to shifts in the language practices of the peripheral family members and that forming voluntary kin can expand heritage language use and enable an overhearer and bystander role for children. Non-residential family members expand the family's linguistic repertoire and support the legitimacy of already established practices. Being sole caretakers enables mothers to encourage language practices that they consider beneficial for their children without encountering any resistance from other family members.

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“…Researchers have explored several variables that are seen as predictive of LMLS. The variables in question of interest to sociolinguistic researchers include the following: the size of population (Wang and Chong, 2011), the mode of settlement (concentration or scatter) (ibid), enlarging or shrinking functional domains of the language use (Kim and Starks, 2010), institutional support, similarities between languages and cultures of the homeland and the resettled country, intergroup marriages and exogamous marriages (David and Dealwis, 2011), language attitude (Sallabank, 2013) and language ideology, government-determined language policy and language planning, and family language policy (Hlfearnáin, 2013).…”

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Strong and Weak Dialects of China: How Cantonese Succeeded Whereas Shaan’Xi Failed with the Help of Media

Mao¹,

Lee²

2014

ASS

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This research addresses an important set of social scientific issues-how language maintenance between dominant and vernacular varieties of speech-also known as dialects-are conditioned by increasingly globalized mass media industries that are created by them and accompany them. In particular, it examines how the television series and film industries (as an outgrowth of the mass media) related to social dialectology help maintain and promote one regional variety of speech over the other. The value of this thesis is ultimately judged by its contribution to the sociolinguistic literature. All of these issues and data addressed in the current study have the potential to make a contribution to the current understanding of social dialectology literature-a sub-branch of sociolinguistics-particularly with respect to the language maintenance literature. The researcher adopts a multi-method approach (literature review, interviews and observations) to collect and analyze data. The research is found support to confirm two positive correlations: the number of production of dialectal television series (and films) and the distribution of the dialect in question, as well as the number of dialectal speakers and the maintenance of the dialect under investigation.

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The role of fathers in language maintenance and language attrition: the case of Korean–English late bilinguals in New Zealand

Cited by 31 publications

References 40 publications

The Effect of Multicultural Family Structures on the Language Attitudes of Children and Adolescents

The Effect of Multicultural Family Structures on the Language Attitudes of Children and Adolescents

Families in flux: at the nexus of fluid family configurations and language practices

Strong and Weak Dialects of China: How Cantonese Succeeded Whereas Shaan’Xi Failed with the Help of Media

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