A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting
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- Victoria Van Oss (UGent) , Wendelien Vantieghem (UGent) , Esli Struys and Piet Van Avermaet (UGent)
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- Whereas early childhood professionals can play a pivotal role in fostering young children's home language development, little is known about what determines the kind of multilingual parenting advice they offer families. The objective of this study was to deconstruct the processes culminating in two types of such recommendations: advice highlighting the usage of the home language in the family domain versus advice to include the dominant language. Different theories, including Spolsky's insights on language policy and Ricento and Hornberger's Onion model, were used to investigate several aspects influencing professionals' interpersonal language policy. Logistic regression analyses were performed on a sample of 305 professionals employed at Flemish infant welfare clinics in Belgium. Our findings indicate that advice highlighting the home language is connected to manifold variables on the national, institutional, and interpersonal language policy levels. However, only few variables at the interpersonal and institutional level were associated with advice to include the dominant language. Hence, future research could further investigate the hitherto unidentified mechanisms underlying this type of advice. Overall, our results show the complex and nuanced ways in which the national, institutional, and interpersonal levels intersect in shaping different types of multilingual advice.
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- Language policy, early childhood, language advice, home languages, multilingualism, EDUCATION, INSIGHTS, Steunpunt Diversiteit & Leren
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8762045
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- Van Oss, Victoria, et al. “A Quantitative Analysis of the Language Policy Processes in Early Childhood Professionals’ Advice on Multilingual Parenting.” CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING, vol. 24, no. 3, 2023, pp. 312–33, doi:10.1080/14664208.2022.2100679.
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- Van Oss, V., Vantieghem, W., Struys, E., & Van Avermaet, P. (2023). A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting. CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING, 24(3), 312–333. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2100679
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- Van Oss, Victoria, Wendelien Vantieghem, Esli Struys, and Piet Van Avermaet. 2023. “A Quantitative Analysis of the Language Policy Processes in Early Childhood Professionals’ Advice on Multilingual Parenting.” CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING 24 (3): 312–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2100679.
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- Van Oss, Victoria, Wendelien Vantieghem, Esli Struys, and Piet Van Avermaet. 2023. “A Quantitative Analysis of the Language Policy Processes in Early Childhood Professionals’ Advice on Multilingual Parenting.” CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING 24 (3): 312–333. doi:10.1080/14664208.2022.2100679.
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- 1.Van Oss V, Vantieghem W, Struys E, Van Avermaet P. A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting. CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING. 2023;24(3):312–33.
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- [1]V. Van Oss, W. Vantieghem, E. Struys, and P. Van Avermaet, “A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting,” CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 312–333, 2023.
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abstract = {{Whereas early childhood professionals can play a pivotal role in fostering young children's home language development, little is known about what determines the kind of multilingual parenting advice they offer families. The objective of this study was to deconstruct the processes culminating in two types of such recommendations: advice highlighting the usage of the home language in the family domain versus advice to include the dominant language. Different theories, including Spolsky's insights on language policy and Ricento and Hornberger's Onion model, were used to investigate several aspects influencing professionals' interpersonal language policy. Logistic regression analyses were performed on a sample of 305 professionals employed at Flemish infant welfare clinics in Belgium. Our findings indicate that advice highlighting the home language is connected to manifold variables on the national, institutional, and interpersonal language policy levels. However, only few variables at the interpersonal and institutional level were associated with advice to include the dominant language. Hence, future research could further investigate the hitherto unidentified mechanisms underlying this type of advice. Overall, our results show the complex and nuanced ways in which the national, institutional, and interpersonal levels intersect in shaping different types of multilingual advice.}},
author = {{Van Oss, Victoria and Vantieghem, Wendelien and Struys, Esli and Van Avermaet, Piet}},
issn = {{1466-4208}},
journal = {{CURRENT ISSUES IN LANGUAGE PLANNING}},
keywords = {{Language policy,early childhood,language advice,home languages,multilingualism,EDUCATION,INSIGHTS,Steunpunt Diversiteit & Leren}},
language = {{eng}},
number = {{3}},
pages = {{312--333}},
title = {{A quantitative analysis of the language policy processes in early childhood professionals’ advice on multilingual parenting}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2100679}},
volume = {{24}},
year = {{2023}},
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