This is a keynote speech Prof. Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen (University of Bath, UK) gave at the BAAL (British Applied Linguistics Association baal.org.uk)- Routledge Research workshop in December 2017, organised by Dr. Fatma Said (www.york.ac.uk/education/our-...) and Dr. Ursula Lanvers (www.york.ac.uk/education/our-...) from the University of York.
The workshop focused on Bilingual First Language Acquisition (baalyork2017workshop.wordpres... Current theories and methodologies. This developmental workshop provided a unique opportunity for those new to the field to explore current and established theories about BFLA (bilingual first language acquisition) as well as those already part of the field to further survey new directions and discuss their research with others. It was highly successful due to the keynote speakers, presenters and attendees.
Prof. Curdt-Christiansen’s keynote was titled: The role of parental beliefs and practices for the process of bilingual acquisition: Does it matter if we are to fully understand bilingualism?
Abstract
In recent years, raising bilingual children has become a widespread phenomenon as people cross borders, integrate into new cultural-linguistic landscapes, form intermarriages and create multilingual families. Concurrently, Family Language Policy (FLP) has received increasing attention. Of central interest is why some children, growing up in a bilingual environment, become monolinguals while other children, growing up in a monolingual society, become bilinguals. Over the past decades, researchers in this field have tried to understand the role FLP plays in bi/multilingual development by examining interactions between family members, investigating parental language ideologies, as well as studying parents’ conscious choices in their discourse strategies. In this talk, I focus on the role of parental beliefs and practices for the process of children’s bilingual development.
3 янв 2018
