Publications

Publication details [#56746]

Kirsch, Claudine. 2012. Ideologies, struggles and contradictions: an account of mothers raising their children bilingually in Luxembourgish and English in Great Britain. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (1) : 95–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | ideology | language and culture | language planning | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

English | Luxembourgish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study examines ideologies, experiences and language planning of Luxembourgish mothers bilingually educating their children in Luxembourgish and English in the UK, without any Luxembourgish community to back them and a ruling monolingual discourse.