scripts final.docx

On this document you will find the five scripts that were used when making the five audiovisual advice-giving films that were delivered to parents. The language we focused on in this study is Mandarin Chinese (henceforth just ‘Chinese’). These ideas can also be implemented in families with other heritage languages.This advice-giving stage is the third stage of the Integrated Modal of Advice (Feng, 2009, 2014) that we implemented in our study.<br>This is the abstract from the study: <b>Abstract</b>Migrant-heritage parents may lack confidence in their skills and knowledge related to bilingual child raising. This qualitative study explores the communicative act of advice giving to caregivers (14 mothers) of young children in New Zealand, following the integrated model of advice giving. Participants had expressed interest in improving their ability to raise their children bilingually (Mandarin Chinese and English), and had solicited advice on their challenges. We provide a set of scholarly informed audiovisuals that advise parents on these challenges, and we later elicit information on parents’ experience implementing the advice through surveys and interviews.We identify and discuss particular difficulties parents’ experience in providing extensive home language exposure, parents’ growing metalinguistic knowledge, and their awareness of the need to integrate opportunities for enriched parent-child language use during every-day tasks. We discuss the need for advice to be aligned with established family routines, and our adaptations to the advice-giving model.<b>Keywords</b>Advice giving, bilingual child raising, heritage language maintenance, first generation migrants