Parents’ multilingual storytelling in the school setting: exploring influence on family language practices
The linguistic choices parents make while communicating with their bi- and multilingual children is fundamental to the development of their children’s linguistic repertoire and multilingual development. The involvement of parents in the implementation of multilingual pedagogies can play a fundamenta...
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| description | The linguistic choices parents make while communicating with their bi- and multilingual children is fundamental to the development of their children’s linguistic repertoire and multilingual development. The involvement of parents in the implementation of multilingual pedagogies can play a fundamental role in fostering parents’ awareness on topics related to multilingualism. This paper illustrates school-based multilingual storytelling activities conducted by parents in a pre-school in northern Italy. The activity was designed as part of the project L’AltRoparlante (Carbonara & Scibetta, 2020), an Italian network of schools which adopted multilingual pedagogies at curricular level. The findings suggest that involving parents in multilingual pedagogies have a positive influence on family language use as they encourage children’s linguistic diversity awareness and parents’ biliteracy planning. Parents’ involvement in multilingual pedagogy can be a useful tool to build inclusive home-school collaborations and to guide parents in shaping multilingual storytelling activities at home. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d9ea0b6c7eba405abdfabe0b21f6f7592025-08-20T04:03:17ZengE-JournALLEuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages2376-905X2024-06-01111117https://doi.org/10.21283/2376905X.1.11.1.2906Parents’ multilingual storytelling in the school setting: exploring influence on family language practicesChiara Facciani0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1372-5839Università per Stranieri di SienaThe linguistic choices parents make while communicating with their bi- and multilingual children is fundamental to the development of their children’s linguistic repertoire and multilingual development. The involvement of parents in the implementation of multilingual pedagogies can play a fundamental role in fostering parents’ awareness on topics related to multilingualism. This paper illustrates school-based multilingual storytelling activities conducted by parents in a pre-school in northern Italy. The activity was designed as part of the project L’AltRoparlante (Carbonara & Scibetta, 2020), an Italian network of schools which adopted multilingual pedagogies at curricular level. The findings suggest that involving parents in multilingual pedagogies have a positive influence on family language use as they encourage children’s linguistic diversity awareness and parents’ biliteracy planning. Parents’ involvement in multilingual pedagogy can be a useful tool to build inclusive home-school collaborations and to guide parents in shaping multilingual storytelling activities at home. https://e-journall.org/index.php/ejall/article/view/2906/2838multilingual pedagogiesmultilingual storytellinghome-school collaborationfamily language policies |
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| title | Parents’ multilingual storytelling in the school setting: exploring influence on family language practices |
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| title_short | Parents’ multilingual storytelling in the school setting: exploring influence on family language practices |
| title_sort | parents multilingual storytelling in the school setting exploring influence on family language practices |
| topic | multilingual pedagogies multilingual storytelling home-school collaboration family language policies |
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