Abstract
This study investigates how Finnish teachers regard immigrant families’ home language policies. Of the teachers who responded, 53.3% believed it best for parents to speak their first languages at home, and 31.7% believed that both first language and language of instruction should be used at home. A minority of the teachers believed that only Finnish should be spoken at home. The teachers’ justifications for their beliefs reflected Ruiz's (1984) orientations in language planning: language-as-right, language-as-resource, and language-as-problem, with most teachers oriented toward language-as-resource. Thus, many teachers’ beliefs align with the current educational stance of supporting multilingualism.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 103347 |
Journal | Teaching and Teacher Education |
Volume | 103 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2021 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |