家庭与多语发展

Multilingualism and the Family

越来越多的儿童成长于双语或多语的家庭语言环境,从而形成家庭多语现象。本文探讨家庭和双语的关系,以及家庭双语环境对儿童早期语言习得的影响。我们将家庭视作一种重要的社会语言环境。本文也通过对双语家庭的调查和深入访谈,考察父母的语言意识形态对儿童多语习得的影响。研究还分析了父母与子女的家庭对话,以揭示促进儿童双语能力发展的因素。

In the current era characterized by greater population mobility, an increasing number of children are brought up in the family environment where two or more languages are used, leading to the occurrence of family multilingualism. Taking family as a community of practice, this paper examines the infl uence of family environment and parents' language ideology on early bilingual language acquisition, particularly in a context where the minority language garners no community support. First, the notion of language socialization is discussed and the language choice patterns in the family are reviewed. The paper then examines various applied linguistic approaches to studying family bilingualism in order to reveal the factors that contribute to fostering bilingualism and multilingualism. The studies employing surveys and in-depth interviews of bilingual families are discussed, and the role of parental language ideology in the process is highlighted. Finally, the micro-analyses of parent-child conversations are explored to demonstrate the parental discourse strategies that may stimulate active bilingualism among young children.