The project explores the role of English in families of non-native English-speaking parents with different L1s.
We are part of Bonn Applied English Linguistics (BAEL) at Bonn University.
09/09/2022
The FamiLingo Team is looking for proficient speakers of Kyrgyz, who can transcribe speech data in multilingual dinner table conversations and translate it into English.
If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, contact us (or share this post with them)! Please send an email to [email protected].
09/09/2022
The FamiLingo Team is looking for proficient speakers of Lithuanian, who can transcribe speech data in multilingual dinner table conversations and translate it into English.
If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, contact us (or share this post with them)! Please send an email to [email protected].
09/09/2022
The FamiLingo Team is looking for proficient speakers of Nepali, who can transcribe speech data in multilingual dinner table conversations and translate it into English.
If you are interested or know someone who might be interested, contact us (or share this post with them)! Please send an email to [email protected].
09/02/2022
We are still looking for multilingual families to participate in a research project at the University of Bonn! 😊
The project explores the role of English in families of non-native English-speaking parents with different mother tongues. For example, a Norwegian speaking mother and an Italian speaking father, who speak (mostly) English as their couple language, and then their bi/multilingual child/ren (who choose/s to speak any language/s).
Check out our website (https://bit.ly/familingo) for more information.
If you are interested or know someone who might be interested in participating, we would be happy to hear from you: via PM, email, or in the comments below! 🥰
03/12/2021
So far 22 families living in Europe have participated in our research project. They include parents of different L1s (Afrikaans, Armenian,
Croatian, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Liechtenstein dialect, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish), who have English as their couple language. The families have one, two, three or four children, aged between 2 and 24 years.😊
About FamiLingo
The project explores the role of English in families of non-native English-speaking parents with different L1s. For that purpose, data from introspective interviews, language portraits and dinner table conversations are collected. The families live in Europe (to date: Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Switzerland).
How do the families communicate? Which roles do the first languages of the parents and the majority languages play in comparison to the English language? Which languages do the children speak, in what way, and which languages do they identify with? These and other questions revolving around the current debates in English as a lingua franca and multilingualism research shall be tackled within this project.