Language Ideologies, Practices, and Kindergarteners’ Narrative Macrostructure Development: Crucial Factors for Sustainable Development of Early Language Education

Jing Yin, Yan Ding and Lin Fan
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Jing Yin: School of Language and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Yan Ding: School of Language and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China
Lin Fan: National Research Center for Foreign Language Education/Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing 100081, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 13, 1-13

Abstract: This paper explored crucial factors to achieve sustainable development of early language education by examining the relationship between two dimensions of family language policy—language ideologies and language practices—as well as the relationship between family language policy and the development of children’s narrative macrostructure. Data were collected via a language performance test and a questionnaire survey of 131 kindergartners from 10 kindergartens in a Chinese city. Structural equation modeling corroborated the relationship between family language ideologies and family language practices proposed by family language policy theorists. Results showed that family language policy significantly predicted kindergarteners’ development of narrative macrostructure. In addition, age was shown to be a significant predictor of narrative macrostructure development, whereas gender was not. Implications for early intervention of children’s narrative macrostructure development were discussed.

Keywords: family language policy; narrative macrostructure development; sustainable development; early language education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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