A corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing.

ABSTRACT: Many parents have concerns about raising their children with multiple languages. However, there is a paucity of previous research regarding parental concerns about multilingual child-rearing, particularly in multilingual societies. We address this gap with a corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing in Quebec, Canada. We created two corpora comprising 641 parents' responses to an open-ended survey question regarding their main concerns about raising multilingual infants/toddlers (English corpus: 12,502 words, French corpus: 9,360 words). We examined frequencies, collocations, concordance lines, and longer segments to investigate the nature and strength of different concerns. Our results revealed that two previously-attested concern types -

SUBMITTER: Quirk E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12588085 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature