Home literacy environment and family language policy of multilingual families in Luxembourg

In this presentation we will talk about home literacy environment (HLE) and family language policy (FLP) of multilingual families in Luxembourg. HLE and FLP are essential for preschool children’s (multi)literacy development, a base for their school success. While there has been a plethora of studies in both HLE and FLP mainly in the bilingual settings, this is the first study that has been conducted in a highly multilingual context offering findings from 600 parent questionnaires and 32 parent interviews, and thus new insights to both domains.
In the first part of the presentation, we will focus on HLE and present the quantitative findings stemming from the parent questionnaires followed by the results from the thematic analysis of the parent interviews. In the second part, our focus will be on FLP of multilingual families where we will present the findings from the discourse analysis based on parent interviews.