Exploring family language policymaking of internal migrant families in contemporary China: negotiating habitus, capital and the social field

IF 1.7 1区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Current Issues in Language Planning Pub Date : 2021-12-07 DOI:10.1080/14664208.2021.2013062
Chang Wei, M. Gu, Lianjiang Jiang
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ABSTRACT Drawing on semi-structured interviews with six Chinese migrant families with children aged 12–15 years old, this qualitative study uses a Bourdieusian lens to probe how the historically lived and migration experiences of Chinese internal migrant parents construct their paradoxical beliefs in children’s English learning and informs their family language practice. The discursive process of constructing family language policy (FLP) reveals how migrant parents negotiate between changing habitus and the newly acquired capital during migration to Shanghai. Findings indicate that the migrant parents acknowledge the value of English in the linguistic market and hold high expectations and aspirations of their children’s English education. However, their historically constructed language ideologies constrain their engagement in children’s English learning and hinder their FLP decision-making. The urban field’s prevailing social and educational norms of promoting children’s learning English as a foreign language to enhance cross-cultural communication and attain academic success has its transformative power, which enables migrant parents to adjust their understanding of English learning and encourages them to facilitate the same for their children at home. The present study proposes a theoretical model to conceptualise the FLP construction in internal migrant families. Implications of the findings for different stakeholders have been discussed.
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当代中国内部流动家庭的家庭语言政策探索:协商习惯、资本与社会场域
摘要本研究采用半结构化访谈的方法,对6个有12-15岁子女的中国移民家庭进行了定性研究,采用布迪厄视角,探讨了中国国内移民父母的历史生活和移民经历如何构建他们在儿童英语学习中的矛盾信念,并为他们的家庭语言实践提供信息。构建家庭语言政策(FLP)的话语过程揭示了移民父母在移民上海过程中如何在不断变化的习惯和新获得的资本之间进行协商。研究结果表明,流动父母承认英语在语言市场中的价值,并对子女的英语教育抱有很高的期望和期望。然而,他们历史建构的语言意识形态限制了他们对儿童英语学习的参与,阻碍了他们的外语学习决策。城市领域的主流社会和教育规范促进儿童学习英语作为外语,以加强跨文化交流并取得学业成功,这具有变革性的力量,使移民父母能够调整他们对英语学习的理解,并鼓励他们在家为孩子提供同样的便利。本研究提出了一个理论模型来概念化内部流动家庭中的FLP结构。讨论了研究结果对不同利益相关者的影响。
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期刊介绍: The journal Current Issues in Language Planning provides major summative and thematic review studies spanning and focusing the disparate language policy and language planning literature related to: 1) polities and language planning and 2) issues in language planning. The journal publishes four issues per year, two on each subject area. The polity issues describe language policy and planning in various countries/regions/areas around the world, while the issues numbers are thematically based. The Current Issues in Language Planning does not normally accept individual studies falling outside this polity and thematic approach. Polity studies and thematic issues" papers in this journal may be self-nominated or invited contributions from acknowledged experts in the field.
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