A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Teachers’ beliefs related to language choice in immigrant students’ homes
Authors: Alisaari Jenni, Sissonen Salla, Heikkola Leena Maria
Publisher: Elsevier
Publication year: 2021
Journal: Teaching and Teacher Education
Article number: 103347
Volume: 103
First page : 1
Last page: 10
eISSN: 1879-2480
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103347
Web address : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X21000718
Self-archived copy’s web address: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/53711025
This study investigates how Finnish teachers regard immigrant families’ home language policies. Of the
teachers who responded, 53.3% believed it best for parents to speak their first languages at home, and
31.7% believed that both first language and language of instruction should be used at home. A minority of
the teachers believed that only Finnish should be spoken at home. The teachers’ justifications for their
beliefs reflected Ruiz’s (1984) orientations in language planning: language-as-right, language-as-resource, and language-as-problem, with most teachers oriented toward language-as-resource. Thus,
many teachers’ beliefs align with the current educational stance of supporting multilingualism.
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