Family and School Language Policies and Practices: Preschool Latinx Bilingual Children

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 9
  In Roundtable Session: Parental Views and Family Engagement in the Context of Bilingual Language Development

Abstract

The purpose is to describe the link between preschool-family language practices, beliefs, and management approaches in relation to maintenance of Spanish and other languages in a group of first-generation Latinx immigrant families living in a Pacific Northwest City. We included multiple methods of data collection and analysis, including archival research, oral history interviews, a brief survey, and specifically using participant observation in two preschools. History interviews are currently being transcribed, so we do not include results yet but offer theoretical frameworks guiding our research questions and analysis. So far, we have observed a complex web of connections and disconnections between family language policy and preschool language policy to be at work in shaping the language practices of our participants.

Author

• Ruby Batz, University of Nevada, Reno