Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines family language policy through a spatial lens, exploring how overlapping home-school spaces shape language ideologies and practices. Using the concept of translanguaging space and Lefebvre’s spatial triad, it analyses spatial-temporal dynamics influencing how multilingual resources are valued, used, or backgrounded in a transnational Indonesian family context, highlighting how constraints operate in these spaces. Drawing on ethnographic data from Indonesian families in Australia, and their children’s teachers, the study employs thematic, narrative and discourse analysis. The findings reveal FLP as spatially co-constructed, shaped by educational aspirations and institutional ideologies. The study contributes to the understanding of constrained multilingualism and highlights aspects of spatiality in FLP research.
Authors: Muhammad Iqwan Sanjani, Anikó Hatoss
Institution: UNSW Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7140789175