Habitus, Ideologies, and Actions: Working-Class and Middle-Class Chinese Immigrant Families' Language Policy in the Midwestern United States

• In Event: Valuing Community Cultural Wealth: Building on Family Language Policies and Knowledge for Learning

Abstract

This study explores how working-class and middle-class immigrant families’ FLP is planned, implemented, and developed from an ecological perspective by focusing on a Chinese immigrant community. Data were mainly from semi-structured interviews and were analyzed thematically. Findings showed that the immigrant families’ FLP can be classified as 1) organized HL learning of middle-class immigrant parents, 2) assimilative ideologies of middle-class immigrant parents, and 3) laissez-faire HL learning of working-class immigrant parents.

Author

• Tsung-han Weng, University of Kansas