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Invisible and Visible Language Planning: Ideological Factors in the Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in Quebec
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Invisible and Visible Language Planning: Ideological Factors in the Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in Quebec
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This ethnographic inquiry examines how family languages policies are planned and developed in ten Chinese immigrant families in Quebec with regard to their children's language and literacy education in three languages -- Chinese, English, and French. The author focuses on how multilingualism is perceived and valued, and how these three languages are linked to particular linguistic markets. The parental ideology that underpins the family language policy, the invisible language planning, is the central focus of analysis. The author's results suggest that family language policies are strongly influenced by socio-political and economical factors. In addition, the study confirms that the parents' educational background, their immigration experiences and their cultural disposition, in this case pervaded by Confucian thinking, contribute significantly to parental expectations and aspirations and thus to the family language policies.
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Language Policy
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Vol. 8
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no. 4
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351-375
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November 2009
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en
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan. “Invisible and Visible Language Planning: Ideological Factors in the Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in Quebec.” Language Policy Vol. 8, no. 4 (November 2009): 351–375.
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