Bilingual children refusing to speak the home language

Ingrid Piller

Bilingual children refusing to speak the home language

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When my daughter was five years old, she one day solemnly informed me that, from now on, she was no longer going to speak German because it was not good for her health. “German hurts my throat”, she explained. The statement showed astute phonetic and psychological judgement. She had identified the kind of argument that would carry weight with her parents (in a way that “I don’t like German” or “Everyone else speaks English” might not have).

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2018

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© 2018 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Bilingual children refusing to speak the home language

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