Multilingual Family Language Policy and Wellbeing

Language Ideologies, Strategies and Experiences
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-80041-964-3
Verlag: Multilingual Matters

Buch, Englisch, Band 157, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism

Makes an important contribution to how we understand wellbeing in multilingual family settings.

This book investigates transnational families’ ideological language motivations, strategies and experiences. The rich interview and observation data from fourteen multilingual families living in Wales and Finland provide insight into the challenges of managing national minority and majority languages alongside a foreign language at home.

It considers the perspectives of parents and children, identifying the strategies used to manage these languages and the effects of these strategies on family wellbeing, particularly children’s self-esteem, identity and sense of capability. Including a variety of Family Language Policy prototypes and language communities, it suggests adjustments to parental strategies and promotes awareness of positive psychology and peer support for language communities.

This book will be of interest to researchers and policymakers in language education and multilingualism as well as parents engaged with Family Language Policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pankakoski, Kaisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Positive Psychologie, Glücksforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Glossary of Terms and Acronyms

Chapter 1. Introducing the Study

Chapter 2. Introducing the Background

Chapter 3. Why Raise Multilingual Children? Ideological Motivations for Language Transmission

Chapter 4. 'How Are We Going to Do This?' Parental Language Strategies

Chapter 5. A Struggle or a Breeze? Parental Experiences Regarding Family Wellbeing and FLP

Chapter 6. Identity, Awareness and Agency: Children’s Perceptions and Wellbeing

Discussion and Conclusions

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pankakoski, Kaisa
Kaisa Pankakoski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in English, Communication and Philosophy and Associate Researcher in the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit at Cardiff University, UK. She is the Founder of the Finnish Saturday School in Cardiff and her research explores multilingualism, wellbeing and family language policy.

Kaisa Pankakoski is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy and an Associate Researcher with the Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit at Cardiff University, UK. She is the Founder of the Finnish Saturday School in Cardiff and her research explores multilingualism, wellbeing and Family Language Policy.