{"id":1828,"date":"2026-10-01T00:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/?page_id=1828"},"modified":"2026-10-01T00:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T04:52:35","slug":"mothering-in-multiple-languages","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/programs\/mothering-in-multiple-languages\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #397885;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">What is Mothering in Multiple Languages: A Mini Ethnography of Bilingualism Beliefs, Family Language Policies, and Language Practices Among Multilingual Immigrant Families? <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: none; border-top: 5px solid #E8EDED; width: 100%; margin: 24px 0 24px; padding: 0;\" \/>\n<p><span>Many multilingual immigrant families in the U.S. value preserving their home language although English-centric school systems and monolingual\u00a0 policies create major obstacles to bilingual growth. Mothers are key agents in shaping early childhood bilingual development. This mini-ethnography investigates how immigrant mothers view bilingual development and how their daily choices shape their children\u2019s bilingual learning. Findings show that bilingual mothering functions as a form of invisible \u201clinguistic care labor\u201d, where mothers frame daily language choices around cultural preservation and maternal duty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #397885;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Meet the team\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This project, led by <span class=\"il\">Alba<\/span> Franco and Dr. Dina Castro.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #e63b28;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Project Team<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border: none; border-top: 5px solid #E8EDED; width: 100%; margin: 12px 0 30px; padding: 0;\" \/>\n<p><span>\n\t<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n\t\t<ul class=\"advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/profile\/dina-castro\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"150\" height=\"146\" src=\"\/ecinstitute\/files\/2021\/10\/DCastro-photo-2025-636x618.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Dina Castro<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Director<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/profile\/alba-franco\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img width=\"88\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/ecinstitute\/files\/2024\/07\/Alba-Franco-374x636.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"profile-name\">Alba Franco<\/p>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title\">Graduate Research Assistant, <br \/>\r\nLanguage and Literacy<\/p>\t<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div><!--\/.profile-listing-->\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Mothering in Multiple Languages: A Mini Ethnography of Bilingualism Beliefs, Family Language Policies, and Language Practices Among Multilingual Immigrant Families? Many multilingual immigrant families in the U.S. value preserving their home language although English-centric school systems and monolingual\u00a0 policies create major obstacles to bilingual growth. Mothers are key agents in shaping early childhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19837,"featured_media":0,"parent":1519,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19837"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1828\/revisions\/1833"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ecinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}