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This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy. This is the first volume to explore the link between family language policy, practice and management in the light of state and community language policy in more than 20 ethno-linguistic communities worldwide. Contributions by leading scholars from eight countries and three continents offer insights in how family language policy might be interpreted from various theoretical perspectives, using innovative methodologies. In particular, the authors present novel data on successful family language practices such as faith-related literacy activities and homework sessions, as well as management, including prayer, choice of bilingual education, and links with mainstream and complementary learning, which permit the realization of language ideology within three contexts: immigrant families, inter-marriage families, and minority and majority families in conflict-ridden societies.

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1. Achieving Success in Family Language Policy: Parents, Children and Educators in Interaction by Mila Schwartz and Anna Verschik.- Part I Family Language Ideology, Practices and Management in Interaction with Mainstream Educational and Bilingual Education . 2. Parents´ Choice of a Bilingual Hebrew-Arabic Kindergarten for their children by Mila Schwartz, Victor Moin and Manal Klayle. 3. The Role of Family Background in Early Bilingual Education: The Finnish-Russian Experience by Victor Moin, Ekaterina Protassova, Valeria Lukkari and Mila Schwartz. 4. Children Learning Multilingually in Home, Community and School Contexts in Britain by Jean Conteh and Saiqa Riasat.- Part II Family Language Policy as a Joint Social Venture. 5. Love, Language and Little Ones: Successes and Stresses for Mothers Raising Bilingual Children in Exogamous Relationships by Lynda Yates and Agnes Terraschke. 6. Family Language Policy and Management in a Changed Socio-Political Situation: Russians and Russian Speakers in Lithuania by Meilut Ramonien . 7. To Make the Root Stronger: Language Policies and Experiences of Successful Multilingual Intermarried Families with Adolescent Children in Tallinn by Colm Doyle. 8. Family Language Policy from the Children´s Point of View: Bilingualism in Place and Time by Lyn Wright Fogle.- Part III The Interaction Patterns between Parents and their Children in their Shared Language and Literacy Practices. 9. Bimodal Bilingual Families: The Negotiation of Communication Practices between Deaf Parents and their Hearing Children by Ginger Pizer. 10. Unity in Discourse, Diversity in Practice: The One Person One Language Policy in Bilingual Families by �sa Palviainen and Sally Boyd. 11. Happylingual: A Family Project for Enhancing and Balancing Multilingual Development by Shulamit Kopeliovich. 12. Negotiating Family Language Policy: Doing Homework by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen

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"Successful Family Language Policy pays testimony to the recent upsurge in interest in the area of family language policy (FLP), also referred to as family language management. ... This compilation is an important first step in a process of between-context comparison which will allow for important questions to be addressed ... ." (Francesca Walls, Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literatures, Vol. 8 (4), November-December, 2015)

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