Growing up between two worlds: Portuguese as a heritage language in Spain
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Language and culture are part of the identity construction of individuals. When a child grows in a different country of his parents, his identity will be more complex, since there’s an alive language and culture in his familiar environment, nevertheless, different from the majority language and culture of the country he lives. This minority language is defined as heritage language (He 2010, Kondo-Brown 2005, Van Deusen-Scholl 2003) or colonial language (Carreira 2004, Fishman & Peyton, 2001).
This paper addresses to recognize the strategies of Brazilian relatives immigrated to Spain to transmit the Portuguese as a heritage language (POLH/PLH) to their children who live in Catalonia, Spain. In this autonomous community there are no bilingual’s schools that teach Portuguese, so that the only resource that the relatives are able to count on is an Association that offers weekly classes and some events related on Brazilian calendar. The results point to a relative awareness about their primordial role in the heritage language transmition. Moreover, they recognize as a difficulty the communication restriction contexts and as a support an institution that promotes POLH/PLH and the necessity of maintaining the family ties in order to children value their family language and culture.
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