Successful Family Language Policy

"Successful Family Language Policy pays testimony to the recent upsurge in interest in the area of family language policy (FLP), also referred to as family language management. ... This compilation is an important first step in a process of between-context comparison which will allow for important questions to be addressed ... ." (Francesca Walls, Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literatures, Vol. 8 (4), November-December, 2015)

• 1. Achieving Success in Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction.- Part I Family Language Ideology, Practices and Management in Interaction with Mainstream Educational and Bilingual Education. 2. Parents' Choice of a Bilingual Hebrew-Arabic Kindergarten for their children. 3. The Role of Family Background in Early Bilingual Education: The Finnish-Russian Experience. 4. Children Learning Multilingually in Home, Community and School Contexts in Britain.- Part II Family Language Policy as a Joint Social Venture. 5. Love, Language and Little Ones: Successes and Stresses for Mothers Raising Bilingual Children in Exogamous Relationships. 6. Family Language Policy and Management in a Changed Socio-Political Situation: Russians and Russian Speakers in Lithuania. 7. To Make the Root Stronger: Language Policies and Experiences of Successful Multilingual Intermarried Families with Adolescent Children in Tallinn. 8. Family Language Policy fromthe Children’s Point of View: Bilingualism in Place and Time.- Part III  The Interaction Patterns between Parents and their Children in their Shared Language and Literacy Practices. 9. Bimodal Bilingual Families: The Negotiation of Communication Practices between Deaf Parents and their Hearing Children. 10. Unity in Discourse, Diversity in Practice: The One Person One Language Policy in Bilingual Families. 11. Happylingual: A Family Project for Enhancing and Balancing Multilingual Development. 12. Negotiating Family Language Policy: Doing Homework.