[lg policy] bibitem: Relationships Among Language Ideologies, Family Language Policies, and Children's Language Achievement: A Look at Cantonese-English Bilinguals in the U.S

[Harold Schiffman]

Bilingual Research Journal: The Journal of the National Association
for Bilingual Education
Volume 35, Issue 3, 2012
Relationships Among Language Ideologies, Family Language Policies, and
Children's Language Achievement: A Look at Cantonese-English
Bilinguals in the U.S


DOI:
    10.1080/15235882.2012.731588

Genevieve Leunga* & Yuuko Uchikoshib

pages 294-313
Version of record first published: 07 Dec 2012


This article examines the reported language ideologies and family
language policies of the parents of Cantonese-English bilinguals in
the U.S. in relation to their children's achievement scores in
Cantonese and English. We explore the relationships first by language
of instruction. Results show children in bilingual classrooms scored
higher than those in mainstream (English-only) classrooms on the
Cantonese tasks, but significantly more children in bilingual programs
had Cantonese as a home language than children in mainstream
classrooms. Parents from mainstream classrooms were significantly more
satisfied with their children's English-language attainment than
parents from bilingual classrooms. Using cluster analysis, we then
identify four new groups of children based on their language
proficiency: (a) English-dominant, (b) Cantonese-dominant, (c)
“balanced bilingual,” and (d) “ideal bilingual.” Results show all
children scored at or above the monolingual English mean on English
decoding, but the ideal bilingual cluster had the largest Cantonese
vocabulary. The English-dominant group heard significantly less
Cantonese in the home, while all children in the ideal bilingual and
Cantonese-dominant clusters heard only Cantonese. Findings point to
the integral component of the family unit in children's bilingual
development and bring up timely issues relating to family language
planning and policy.

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15235882.2012.731588

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