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Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.

Through the lens of bilingual first language acquisition, this study exam ines languages used by Chinese descendant children in various domains and home language strategies taken by their mothers to enhance the children’s English lan guage learning. Data were collected by means of an open-ended qu...

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Main Authors: Ong, Teresa Wai See, Ting, Su Hie
Other Authors: Mirjam, Schmalz
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter Mouton 2024
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P Philology. Linguistics
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47168/1/2024_Ong_Ting_family_L_policy_DeGruyter.pdf
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spelling my.unimas.ir-471682025-01-02T05:38:54Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47168/ Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia. Ong, Teresa Wai See Ting, Su Hie P Philology. Linguistics Through the lens of bilingual first language acquisition, this study exam ines languages used by Chinese descendant children in various domains and home language strategies taken by their mothers to enhance the children’s English lan guage learning. Data were collected by means of an open-ended questionnaire an swered by three Chinese descendant mothers living in Penang, Malaysia. The findings reveal an overarching trend of the children speaking English as their prin cipal language of communication in the domains of home, extended home, and school, thus hampering the acquisition of Chinese dialects as their ethnic languages. Because their mothers see the importance of English in light of today’s competitive educational landscape, they provided reading materials, educational television, and tutoring programmes to improve their children’s English proficiency. The findings suggest that children’s simultaneous dual language acquisition and the resulting use of code-mixing is due to parental home language policies. De Gruyter Mouton Mirjam, Schmalz Manuela, Vida-Mannl Sarah, Buschfeld Thorsten, Brato 2024 Book Chapter PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47168/1/2024_Ong_Ting_family_L_policy_DeGruyter.pdf Ong, Teresa Wai See and Ting, Su Hie (2024) Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia. In: Acquisition and variation in World Englishes : Bridging paradigms and rethinking approaches. De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 37-58. ISBN 9783110733723 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110733723-003/html?lang=en https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733723-003
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topic P Philology. Linguistics
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
Ong, Teresa Wai See
Ting, Su Hie
Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.
description Through the lens of bilingual first language acquisition, this study exam ines languages used by Chinese descendant children in various domains and home language strategies taken by their mothers to enhance the children’s English lan guage learning. Data were collected by means of an open-ended questionnaire an swered by three Chinese descendant mothers living in Penang, Malaysia. The findings reveal an overarching trend of the children speaking English as their prin cipal language of communication in the domains of home, extended home, and school, thus hampering the acquisition of Chinese dialects as their ethnic languages. Because their mothers see the importance of English in light of today’s competitive educational landscape, they provided reading materials, educational television, and tutoring programmes to improve their children’s English proficiency. The findings suggest that children’s simultaneous dual language acquisition and the resulting use of code-mixing is due to parental home language policies.
author2 Mirjam, Schmalz
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Ong, Teresa Wai See
Ting, Su Hie
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Ting, Su Hie
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title Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.
title_short Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.
title_full Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.
title_fullStr Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.
title_full_unstemmed Language use patterns and strategies for children’s English language development : Insights from Chinese descendant mothers in multilingual Malaysia.
title_sort language use patterns and strategies for children’s english language development : insights from chinese descendant mothers in multilingual malaysia.
publisher De Gruyter Mouton
publishDate 2024
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/47168/1/2024_Ong_Ting_family_L_policy_DeGruyter.pdf
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