Intersections of Official and Family Language Policy in Quebec

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Title
Intersections of Official and Family Language Policy in Quebec
Abstract
The authors describe their study that sought to determine the beliefs, practices, and needs of parents living in Montreal who were raising their children bi/multilingually. The parents (N = 27) participated in a total of nine focus group and individual interviews in which they discussed their family language policies (language ideologies, practices, and actions taken to maintain a language). The authors explain that through rounds of deductive and inductive coding and analysis, family language policies regarding English and/or French were compared with policies regarding heritage languages. The participants’ family language policies were further examined in light of Quebec’s official language policy of interculturalism. The authors’ findings indicate a complex co-existence of family and official language policy in which parents both support Quebec’s official language policy by converging towards French as a common public language and questioning the policy’s stance on official institutional support for heritage languages.
Publication
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Volume
Vol. 43
Issue
no. 7
Pages
614-628
Date
2022
Language
en
Citation
Ballinger, Susan, Melanie Brouillard, Alexa Ahooja, Ruth Kircher, Linda Polka, and Krista Byers-Heinlein. “Intersections of Official and Family Language Policy in Quebec.” Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Vol. 43, no. 7 (2022): 614–628.
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