Arabic as a home language in Sweden: family language practices and beliefs.

ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the language maintenance efforts of Arabic-heritage families whose preschool- and early primary school-age children are growing up bilingually with Arabic and Swedish. As a result of large-scale immigration to Sweden, Arabic has become by far the largest minority language, but very little is known about Arabic as a home language in this population. As part of a broader research project on child multilingualism, a questionnaire survey was administered to the parents of 100 Arabic/Swedish-speaking children. The resulting quantitative data on family language practices and beliefs were complemented by a smaller-scale follow-up interview study 2 years later. Family language practices targeted included parent-parent, parent-child and sibling interaction, language-fosterin

SUBMITTER: Bohnacker U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12747834 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature