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Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany

Languages (Basel), 2021-03, Vol.6 (1), p.50 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2226-471X ;EISSN: 2226-471X ;DOI: 10.3390/languages6010050

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  • Title:
    Home and School Language Practices and Their Effects on Heritage Language Acquisition: A View from Heritage Italians in Germany
  • Author: Caloi, Irene ; Torregrossa, Jacopo
  • Subjects: Bilingualism ; Children ; Children & youth ; consistency ; continuity ; Core curriculum ; education in a heritage language ; Families & family life ; heritage Italian ; Heritage language ; home language use ; Italian as a second language ; Language acquisition ; Learning environment ; Linguistics ; parental strategies ; Parents & parenting ; Questionnaires ; Schools ; Second language learning
  • Is Part Of: Languages (Basel), 2021-03, Vol.6 (1), p.50
  • Description: This paper intends to provide some speculative remarks on how consistency and continuity in language use practices within and across contexts inform heritage language acquisition outcomes. We intend “consistency” as maintenance of similar patterns of home language use over the years. “Continuity” refers to the possibility for heritage language speakers to be exposed to formal education in the heritage language. By means of a questionnaire study, we analyze to what extent Italian heritage families in Germany are consistent in their use of the heritage language with their children. Furthermore, by analyzing the educational offer related to Italian as a heritage language across different areas in Germany, we reflect on children’s opportunities to experience continuity between home and school language practices. Finally, we interpret the results of previous studies on Italian heritage language acquisition through the lens of consistency and continuity of language experience. In particular, we show that under the appropriate language experience conditions (involving consistency and continuity), heritage speakers may be successful even in the acquisition of linguistic phenomena that have been shown to be acquired late in first language acquisition.
  • Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2226-471X
    EISSN: 2226-471X
    DOI: 10.3390/languages6010050
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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