TY - CHAP
T1 - Supporting heritage language development through adults' participation in activity settings
AU - Li, Liang
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The field of heritage language studies is under-researched and bilingual families struggle to maintain their heritage languages at home. The in-depth study reported in this chapter examined an episode of one child, a 4-year-old girl, and her parents, baking at home in order to explore how parents’ participation aligns with children’s actions in supporting their heritage language development in a home activity setting. Hedegaard’s (Studying children: A cultural-historical approach. Open University Press, Maidenhead, pp. 30–45, 2008, Mind, Culture and Activity 16:64–82, 2009) wholeness approach and model of children’s learning and development through participation in institutional practices form the foundation of the analysis. Through taking different perspectives, this chapter explains how the parents interact with their daughter differently while they both aim to support her bilingual heritage learning and development and how this impacts on their daughters’ opportunities to practice Chinese in the home activity setting. This study gives insights into the essence of the activity setting as an analytical concept to research the child’s development.
AB - The field of heritage language studies is under-researched and bilingual families struggle to maintain their heritage languages at home. The in-depth study reported in this chapter examined an episode of one child, a 4-year-old girl, and her parents, baking at home in order to explore how parents’ participation aligns with children’s actions in supporting their heritage language development in a home activity setting. Hedegaard’s (Studying children: A cultural-historical approach. Open University Press, Maidenhead, pp. 30–45, 2008, Mind, Culture and Activity 16:64–82, 2009) wholeness approach and model of children’s learning and development through participation in institutional practices form the foundation of the analysis. Through taking different perspectives, this chapter explains how the parents interact with their daughter differently while they both aim to support her bilingual heritage learning and development and how this impacts on their daughters’ opportunities to practice Chinese in the home activity setting. This study gives insights into the essence of the activity setting as an analytical concept to research the child’s development.
KW - activity setting
KW - demands
KW - motives
KW - heritage language development
KW - adult's participation
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-13-6826-4_6
DO - 10.1007/978-981-13-6826-4_6
M3 - Chapter (Book)
SN - 9789811368257
T3 - Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research
SP - 85
EP - 100
BT - Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development
A2 - Edwards, Anne
A2 - Fleer, Marilyn
A2 - Bøttcher, Louise
PB - Springer
CY - Singapore Singapore
ER -