Intersections of Official and Family Language Policy in Quebec
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Intersections of Official and Family Language Policy in Quebec
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| 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.
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Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
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Vol. 43
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no. 7
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614-628
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2022
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en
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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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