This book explores the question of family language policy in multilingual households.

This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy.

This is the first volume that brings together the different strands in research on social and affective factors in home language maintenance and development, ranging from the micro-level (family language policies and practices), to the meso ...

How do the factors of birth order, personality or family size interact in language production? With data from over 100 international families this book investigates the reality of family life with two or more children and languages.

Based on extensive research that proves that children actively make sense of literacy outside the official schooling and parental tuition they receive, this book examines how young children take literacy learning into their own hands.

Now available in paperback, Code-Switching in Conversation brings together contributions from a wide variety of sociolinguistics settings in which the phenomenon is observed.

This book is a longitudinal case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family beginning with their births and ending in late adolescence.

Action Planning for Educational Change -- Reflecting on an Absenteeism Policy -- Developing Action Plans -- Some Challenges Facing Teacher Researchers -- Facilitating Educational Change -- What Do Teachers Gain Through All of This Work?

This book is concerned with action research as a form of teacher professional development. In it, John Elliot traces the historical emergence and current significance of action research in schools.