Socialization of Language Through Family Language Policy: A Case Study
and | May 02, 2014
Published Online: May 02, 2014
Page range: 53 - 66
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0004
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© by Tijana Hirsch
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Challenges of heritage language maintenance and benefits of bilingualism have been widely acknowledged. Heritage language maintenance research most oft en focuses on heritage languages in English-dominant societies. This paper presents a case study on family language policy experiences, strategies, and outcomes led by an American-born mother in her effort to maintain and promote English, her heritage language, within the home in the Hebrew-dominant environment in Israel