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Welsh Language Socialization in the Family: A Study of Minority Language Education

This project aims to investigate minority language socialization within Welsh-speaking families. It seeks to understand why some parents choose to raise their children to speak Welsh while others do not. The research involves interviews, diaries, and photographs to explore the role of family language transfer in maintaining Welsh as a community language. The study also examines educational choices, institutionalization, and local educational policies that influence language socialization in the home.

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Welsh Language Socialization in the Family: A Study of Minority Language Education

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  1. Welsh Language Socialization in the Family Kathryn Jones & Delyth Morris Bangor University & Cwmni Iaith Enseignement des language minoritaires / Minority Language Education Workshop Conference, Corsica July 2006

  2. Project Aims • Long term investigation of minority language socialisation within the family • Identify why some Welsh-speaking parents raise their children to speak Welsh while others do not

  3. Project Aims • Informing WAG policy of promoting ‘family language transfer’ as a key component to maintaining Welsh as a family and community language

  4. Method • 3 areas • 12 families • Interviews • Diaries • Photographs

  5. Theoretical framing • Ethnographic approach to language shift (Gal 1979) • Language socialization research (Schieffelin & Ochs 1986) • Communities of practice (Wenger 1998)

  6. Emerging language and education issues • Parents’ educational choices • Early educational institutionalization • Local educational policy • Older siblings’ education

  7. Parents’ educational choices • deciding very early • based on parents’ values and education experience • mother is the main language – decision maker

  8. Early Educational Institutionalization • Parent and Toddler / nursery groups • Sachau Stori • Healthy Living Centre • Formal childcare

  9. Parent & toddler groups

  10. Parent & toddler groups

  11. Parent & toddler groups

  12. Early Educational Institutionalization • Parent and Toddler / nursery groups • Sachau Stori • Healthy Living Centre • Formal childcare

  13. Healthy Living Centre

  14. Early Educational Institutionalization • Parent and Toddler / nursery groups • Sachau Stori • Healthy Living Centre • Formal childcare

  15. Formal Childcare

  16. Local educational policy • National Curriculum for Wales • Local educational authority determines policy • School governors interpretation

  17. Gwynedd • Bilingual policy throughout • Denbighshire A - Designated Welsh Medium B - Natural Bilingual C - Welsh as a Second Language D - English medium

  18. Older siblings’ education • Older siblings’ schooling shapes the young child’s language socialization in the home • Language resources of older sibling • Home work, reading books, computers

  19. Language resources of older sibling

  20. Language resources of older sibling

  21. Language resources of older cousins

  22. Language resources of older cousins

  23. Homework

  24. Homework

  25. Reading books

  26. Reading books

  27. Reading books

  28. Computers

  29. Computers

  30. Computers

  31. Language and education issues emerging • Parents’ values and experiences • Early social identities and institutionalization of learning • Education ideologies and provision • ‘Secondary socialization’ of older siblings shapes the ‘primary socialization’ of younger siblings

  32. Welsh Language Socialization in the Family Kathryn Jones & Delyth Morris Bangor University & Cwmni Iaith Enseignement des language minoritaires / Minority Language Education Workshop Conference, Corsica July 2006

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