Establishing a Bilingual Ho me: Parents’ Perspective on the Effectiveness of the Adopted Communication Strategies

This paper examines strategies and ways of communication adopted by bilingual families who have been raising their offspring with more than one language. We analyse the results of a survey carried out in 32 families, looking at the strategies of communication adopted, parents' assessment of their effectiveness, and whether the respondents would have changed or improved anything if they had been given a "second chance". The results showed that the most frequently implemented method was the one parent-one language strategy, whose usefulness the majority assessed very positively. Other interesting conclusions concerning bi-and multilingual upbringing are also discussed.