Abstract
<p>Heritage language maintenance research most often focuses on heritage languages in English dominant societies. This paper presents a case-study, the second in a series, which focuses on the family language policy experiences, strategies, and outcomes of native English speakers raising children in a Hebrew dominant environment in Israel. </p>
Highlights
This paper presents a case-study, the second in a series, which focuses on the family language policy experiences, strategies, and outcomes of native English speakers raising children in a Hebrew dominant environment in Israel
This case study is part of a series of articles examining the issue of Heritage Language (HL) maintenance in the English speaking community residing in Israel
Michal Tannenbaum’s 2003 article in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism “The Multifaceted Aspects of Language Maintenance: A New Measure for its Assessment in Immigrant Families” addressed these issues and reflected the feelings and attitudes expressed by our case study participants: “Immigrants often feel that speaking another language is almost like being someone else, alienated from one’s familiar way of thinking and feeling” and “The mother tongue has to do with an internal sense of self, with childhood memories, with relationships with one’s own parents, and with emotions associated with the home country and the past” (Tannenbaum, 2003)
Summary
This case study is part of a series of articles examining the issue of Heritage Language (HL) maintenance in the English speaking community residing in Israel. In our previous study (Kayam and Hirsch, 2013) we examined the Family Language Policy (FLP) of a family where the mother’s mother tongue was English and the father’s Hebrew In this current study we examined a family where both the mother and father are native English speakers raised in the United States who moved to Israel in 1977 and 1981 respectively. Both parents are American citizens so the issue of FLP can not be divorced from the broader issue of immigrant integration and acculturation. In this article we will show how speaking English is experienced by two generations in an English speaking home located within a Hebrew speaking society
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