Mixed system 1: a language strategy for bilingual families
According to the literature on family bilingualism, parents raising their children in two languages by choice are recommended to choose from one of these two main language strategies: either One person/parent, one language (OPOL) or Minority Language at Home (ml@h). However, the results of a survey...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/68324 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11441/68324 https://doi.org/10.12795/elia.2017.i17.06 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Family bilingualism Family language policy English-Spanish bilingualism Bilingual families language strategies Mixed language strategy Bilingüismo familiar Política lingüística familiar Bilingüismo inglés-español Estrategias lingüísticas de familias bilingües Estrategia lingüística mixta |
| Sumario: | According to the literature on family bilingualism, parents raising their children in two languages by choice are recommended to choose from one of these two main language strategies: either One person/parent, one language (OPOL) or Minority Language at Home (ml@h). However, the results of a survey carried out by the author on a group of 110 English-Spanish bilingual families in Madrid showed that the second most popular language strategy after OPOL is another strategy named here as Mixed System 1(MS1). Therefore, this strategy proves to be interesting to explore in detail, looking at the reasons for its choice as well as the implications and consequences involved, both from a practical and an emotional perspective, for parents as well as for children. Research on the topic and a case study on the group of families that use this method in Madrid are the main points of this article. A questionnaire was designed in order to collect information about this language strategy and the answers confirmed the effectiveness of Mixed System 1 as an alternative strategy in this particular context. |
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