Publications

Publication details [#56432]

Ruby, Mahera. 2012. The role of a grandmother in maintaining Bangla with her granddaughter in East London. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (1) : 67–83.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

family conversation | language maintenance | language policy | mother-child conversation | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Bangla

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study emphasizes the need for all educators to better understand grandparents' key role and functions in Bangla language maintenance and in the personal, academic and social pathways of third-generation Bangladeshi children within a multicultural UK context.