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PARENTS' PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN'S ATTITUDE OF
THE HERITAGE LANGUAGE THROUGH INTERGENERATIONAL READING IN THE L1
A Study of Afghan Immigrants in the United StatesRuth A. Aldrich, M.A.
FOCUS OF THE STUDY: INFLUENCING CHILDREN'S VALUES TO PRESERVE THE HERITAGE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
This is a copy of the Thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the University of North Dakota in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
In this thesis, I discuss four theories. Acculturation (Portes and Rambauts 1996, and Rubin 1968); intergenerational reading (Paratore 1994; Paratore et al. 1995; Paratore and Krol-Sinclair 1996; Paratore, Melzi and Krol-Sinclair 1999); bilingualism and biliteracy, (Williams and Snipper 1990; Warner and Wittner 1998); and learner-centered education (Fingeret and Jurmo 1989; Saunders 1983) were found to be pivotal for immigrants' positive adaptation to their new host country.
EVALUATION OF EXISTING THEORIES
Previous studies in these areas indicated that when parents model these domains, it influences their children's values with regards to preserving the heritage language and culture.
These theories were evaluated in my family-centered reading program. I hypothesized that intergenerational Afghan Dari family-centered reading would result in improvements in children's attitudes towards learning Dari and Afghan culture.
IMMIGRANT LANGUAGE AND ITS RETENTION IN THE NEW COUNTRY
This research on immigrant language issues affirms heritage language learning as a way to strengthen family identity and acculturation within North America. It emphasizes that it is important for parents to mentor their children. This will affirm the language and cultural identity of both parents and children and facilitate the adjustment to a new society. Involvement in the learning process by parents can foster family stability and promote both parents' and children's acculturation.
ROLE OF HERITAGE READING
In practice, I observed the effects of family-centered heritage reading in immigrant households. I wanted to see if reading could be an effective method of heritage language transmission by focusing not only on spoken heritage language but also on written heritage language. Family-centered reading can be used for the purpose of strengthening family connectedness. Parents' abilities to speak and read two languages and parental guidance towards acculturation to a new host country can be utilized. Too frequently, parents' involvement in their children's host language learning experience is sidelined by host culture representatives when programs are initiated to assimilate children to the host country language.
THE PIVOTAL ROLE OF PARENTAL ATTITUDE TO TRANSMISSION OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
This research suggests that parental attitude towards transmission was pivotal in passing on Dari to their children. Parents with positive attitudes towards Dari transmission also perceived their children's attitude was positive and they experienced more successful interaction with their children. For example, F3 father and F3 mother maintained a positive attitude throughout the study. Subsequently F3a brought the Dari reading books to them to read, memorized the Dari alphabet early in the reading program, spoke more Dari with other Afghan children, spoke more Dari with non-English-speaking relatives, and asked F3mother and F3father more questions about Afghanistan.
This emphasizes that positive attitudes by the parents and positive interactions with their children were crucial in Dari transmission. Although the actual study showed minimal improvements on parents' perception of their children's positive attitudes and behaviors, Family 3 did observe F3a used more Dari with friends and family at the end of the study then at the beginning of the study.
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