I'm here with Professor Elizabeth Lanser who is a professor of linguistics at the University of Oslo and director of Multiling, the centre for multilingualism in society across the lifespan. So thank you very much Elizabeth for joining us today and I would like you to ask a couple of questions about this notion of family language policy that you've been talking about for quite a while now. Okay.
Family language policy is especially relevant when speaking about bilingual families and the policies and the strategies they use in order to assure that their child is raised to become bilingual. We know that there are many bilingual families that have children and some of these children end up speaking both languages. While in other cases there are families that perhaps talk to the children.
End up not speaking, he's not using. So this study by a family language policy, look at it to investigate what policies can be conducive to. We talk about, and sometimes people think that very, one way a policy is can be very common.
For example, but there are very many different ways to proceed. So you were talking about these one pair and one part. Is it true that this is one of the best? I was only a parent of one person or else reformula said and shows the very thing so still be free They'll be responding in her lifetime.
So even though it's policy that they're stealing, also, my children are... Thank you so much Liz for sharing your expertise.