Journal of Home Language Research: Journal Articles
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To be like a home extension’: Challenges of language learning and language maintenance - lessons from the Polish-Irish experience
(2017)The research described in this paper investigates issues related to language socialization of four adolescent Polish immigrant children attending different post-primary schools in Ireland. The focus is on how heritage ... -
Parental input patterns and transmission of high-status heritage languages: English and German as heritage languages in Norway
(2017)This study examines the mother-reported language practice in bilingual English/German-Norwegian, two-parent families in Norway, and explores the effects of (1) parental input patterns, (2) parental gender, and (3) status ... -
Family language policy in refugee-background communities: Towards a model of language management and practices
(2017)As interest in the field of family language policy is burgeoning, an invitation has been issued to include more diverse families and language constellations. This article responds by presenting family language management ... -
Home language maintenance and development among first generation migrant children in an Irish primary school: An investigation of attitudes
(2017)This qualitative study was undertaken against the backdrop of rapidly increasing levels of immigration to Ireland and a subsequent growing increase in the percentage of children attending Irish primary schools with a first ... -
Strategies for language maintenance in transnational adoption: which role for the parents?
(2017)This paper investigates adoptive parents’ representations of their children’s birth-language and language negotiation which takes place during early stages of transnational adoption. By drawing on the interview discourse ... -
Editorial
(2016)We are excited to present the first papers of the new Journal of Home Language Research. We hope this journal will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of original research from all parts of the world, in all ... -
Turkish- and German-speaking bilingual 4-to-6-year-olds living in Sweden: Effects of age, SES and home language input on vocabulary production
(2016)This paper investigates vocabulary production in the minority home languages of 40 Turkish-Swedish and 38 German-Swedish bilingual preschoolers aged 4;0–6;11, growing up in Sweden. We explore how age, SES, and exposure via ... -
Holding them at arm’s length: A critical review of Norway’s policy on Sámi language maintenance
(2016)Norway’s policy on its indigenous Sámi minority is oftentimes heralded as best practice in fostering self-determination and home language maintenance. Norway’s policy rhetoric indeed promises that all Sámi have a right ...