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Quebec-based Parents’ Attitudes Towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors
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Quebec-based Parents’ Attitudes Towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors
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The authors note that theirs is the first large-scale, quantitative study of the evaluative dimensions and potential predictors of Quebec-based parents’ attitudes towards childhood multilingualism. They point out that such attitudes are assumed to constitute a determinant of parental language choices, and thereby influence children’s multilingual development. They used the newly-developed Attitudes towards Childhood Multilingualism Questionnaire to gather data from 825 participants raising an infant/toddler aged 0–4 years with multiple languages in the home. Their results revealed three separate dimensions: status and solidarity (the same dimensions found in attitudes towards individual languages) as well as cognitive development (not previously attested as a separate dimension). Participants’ approach to promoting multilingualism (specifically, whether they used the one-person-one-language-approach) and the combination of languages transmitted (specifically, whether this included a heritage language) correlated significantly with parental attitudes towards childhood multilingualism. The authors found that parents’ linguistic background and location within Quebec were not significant predictors of attitudes.
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Journal of Language and Social Psychology
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Vol. 4
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no. 5
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527-552
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2022
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en
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Kircher, Ruth, Erin Quirk, Melanie Brouillard, Alexa Ahooja, Susan Ballinger, Linda Polka, and Krista Byers-Heinlein. “Quebec-Based Parents’ Attitudes Towards Childhood Multilingualism: Evaluative Dimensions and Potential Predictors.” Journal of Language and Social Psychology Vol. 4, no. 5 (2022): 527–552.
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