FACTORS INFLUENCING FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY OF AMERICAN UZBEK FAMILIES IN KAZAKHSTAN

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dc.contributor.authorJumamuratova, Gullala
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T12:43:16Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T12:43:16Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-21
dc.description.abstractFactors Influencing Family Language Policy of American Uzbek Families in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan’s economic development has attracted many migrants and expats who choose it as a destination for work and a place to reside. While embracing Kazakhstan’s cultural diversity, these families often face significant challenges maintaining their ethnic language and culture. This happens particularly in multilingual environments where a hierarchy of languages impacts the family language policy of these families. Given the lack of studies on expatriate families’ language planning and strategies for preserving their ethnic languages and the limited studies on FLP in Kazakhstan, this research is crucial to filling the research gaps. It is important to explore the factors that shape the Family Language Policy of expatriate and intermarriage families and the strategies they employ to maintain their ethnic languages in the multilingual context of Kazakhstan. This study explored the factors influencing the Family Language Policy of American Uzbek families residing in Kazakhstan. It provides insights into how these families maintain their ethnic languages and cultures in Kazakhstan’s predominantly Kazakh and Russian-speaking context. The study employed a mini-ethnographic case study design, and data was collected using written narratives, non-participant observations, and semi-structured interviews. The participants were two expat families residing in Kazakhstan. The findings reveal that both external and internal factors shape the family language policy of American Uzbek families in Kazakhstan. These families use strategies to preserve their ethnic languages and culture, including the help of diaspora communities, grandparents’ support, digital tools, and keeping their national dishes. The study shows the crucial role of FLP in preventing language and culture loss among American Uzbek families in Kazakhstan. These findings provide crucial implications for policymakers. By shedding light on the various strategies to prevent language and culture loss, this study provides a roadmap for policies to promote a multilingual, inclusive society and preserve diverse languages and cultures.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJumamuratova, G. (2024). Factors Influencing Family Language Policy of American Uzbek Families in Kazakhstan. Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Educationen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/7990
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNazarbayev University Graduate School of Educationen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectType of access: Restricteden_US
dc.subjectfamily language policyen_US
dc.subjectexpat familiesen_US
dc.subjectmigrant familiesen_US
dc.subjectAmerican Uzbek familiesen_US
dc.subjectlanguage maintenanceen_US
dc.subjectKazakhstanen_US
dc.subjectqualitative studyen_US
dc.titleFACTORS INFLUENCING FAMILY LANGUAGE POLICY OF AMERICAN UZBEK FAMILIES IN KAZAKHSTANen_US
dc.typeMaster's thesisen_US
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