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Turkish heritage families in Sweden: language practices and family language policy

Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, 2022-10, Vol.43 (9), p.861-873 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2022 ;ISSN: 0143-4632 ;ISSN: 1747-7557 ;EISSN: 1747-7557 ;DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2022.2041646

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  • Title:
    Turkish heritage families in Sweden: language practices and family language policy
  • Author: Bohnacker, Ute
  • Subjects: Book reading ; family language policy ; heritage languages ; language maintenance ; Linguistics ; Lingvistik ; Swedish ; Turkish
  • Is Part Of: Journal of multilingual and multicultural development, 2022-10, Vol.43 (9), p.861-873
  • Description: This paper explores family language policy in Turkish-speaking families in Sweden. Questionnaires were administered to the parents of 105 Turkish/Swedish children (age 4 − 7), targeting family language practices (including parent-parent, parent-child, child-parent, child-and-sibling conversation and language-fostering activities such as joint book reading, storytelling and mother tongue tuition), and parental language beliefs and attitudes. Despite much diversity in family types concerning parents' education, country of birth, native language and ethnic affiliation (e.g. Kurdish), common traits emerge: There is a strong focus on the transmission of Turkish in the home, in the face of early and extensive Swedish pre-school attendance. Parents mostly speak Turkish with the child. However, Sweden-born parents report higher uses of Swedish in the home, and sibling interaction also drives a shift towards Swedish. Parental education appears to affect Turkish joint reading activities. Most parents consider proficiency in Turkish and Swedish as equally important for their children. Parents who rank Turkish higher do not necessarily show more maintenance efforts, pointing to some inconsistency between attitudes and practices. Overall, the family language practices observed indicate strong bilingual ideologies and strong language maintenance ideologies, in line with Swedish official state-level language policy, which supports bilingualism and minority language maintenance.
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0143-4632
    ISSN: 1747-7557
    EISSN: 1747-7557
    DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2022.2041646
  • Source: SWEPUB Freely available online
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