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  • 26 - Linguistic Landscapes in the Home: Multilingual Children’s Toys, Books and Games

  • from Part Six - Multilingual Children’s Landscape
  • Edited by Anat Stavans, Ulrike Jessner, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Childhood Multilingualism
    Published online:
    18 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022, pp 605-622

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the notion of “homescape” and the role of material homescapes showcasing visible linguistic resources in general, and games and toys more specifically, in the development of the multilingual child. This contribution offers a state of the art regarding the constitution and perception of the linguistic landscapes of infancy and the linguistic, cognitive, affective, social and identity affordances provided by them. We focus particularly on: (i) the multilingual resources of multilingual families and communities engaged with the transmission and maintenance of heritage languages (and therefore involved in multiliteracy practices); (ii) children’s, families’ and educators’ perceptions of multilingual settings and resources available at home; and (iii) their practices and agency within such settings, in order to foster children’s language awareness and literacy across languages. A review of methodologies employed to research homescapes will be critically discussed and a research agenda is outlined, in terms of both potential themes and methodologies.