ABSTRACT

Family language policy (FLP) research has made important contributions to understandings of how home language policies interact in complex nested relationships with economic and political processes outside the home (e.g., CurdtChristiansen, 2013; King & Fogle, 2013; Shohamy, 2006; Spolsky, 2009). Insights into FLPs have come, in large measure, from examining parents’ explicit and overt decision-making processes with respect to home language use and supporting children’s multilingualism. While parents’ perspectives on FLPs are clearly significant, so too are those of the younger members of the families.