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</div><br><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">:</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">Family language policy in mixed marriages</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">-</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">who is in control? A </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">case study of families </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">on intercultural marriages </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif">
in Perth</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:18.56px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Name of Author 1</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">: </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Kyoko Kawasaki</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Curtin University</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Name of Author </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">2</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
: </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Tomoko </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Nakamatsu</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">University of Western Australia</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Proposed Program Stream: </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Communication, Language, and Education<br><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Abstract<br><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">From the interview of Japanese women migrants in Perth in intermarried relationships withpartners whose first language is notJapanese, this study explores the language use in the day-to-day domestic environment. The project employs the concept of the family language policy andexamines what the families’ language policies are, what factors contribute to their policies, and how and why they adhere to or change the policies. Families do not usually state their languagepolicies explicitly, but whether intentionally or unintentionally, people make decisions on theirlanguage use in each speech community and those decisions become the community’s language policies.<br>
<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Spolsky (2007) says that there are three components in language policy whether it is </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">national policy or family policy: practices, beliefs, and management.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Our study focuses on the </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">sphere of the family and</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">attempts an ethnographic investigation into the language use in the </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">domestic relationships through exploring the three domains Spolsky identifies. </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">These three </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">domains do not operate separately but are intertwined and shape each other.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">The study identifies key factors t</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">hat influence the family language policy. For many women, the </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">strongest internal factor within the family is the belief on ‘elite bilingualism’ that one should </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">speak two languages perfectly as a native speaker to be a bilingual (Heller, 2007). This belie</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
f </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">can both encourage and discourage the bilingualism (or multilingualism) within the family. The </div></div><a name="2"></a><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
strongest external influence on the family language policy is the status of English, that is, its </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">dominance in the society and its social and economic mobility</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">. Yet, the family language policy </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">also shows fluidity and variations, and they are related to individuals’ migrant identities. The </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">study discusses how their migrant identities shape their beliefs, practices and management of the </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
family language policy, and</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">how the language use influences their identities at the same t</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">ime. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Heller, M. (2007). Bilingualism as ideology and practice. In M. Heller (Ed.), Bilingualism: a </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">social approach (pp. 1</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">-</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">22). Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif"> </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Spolsky, B. (2007). Towards a T</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
heory of Language Policy. Working Papers in Educational </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">Linguistics, 22(1), 1</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">-</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:16px;font-family:sans-serif">
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