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Summary Of Stop Doing That By Aneta Pavlenko

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This week, I have read Aneta Pavlenko’s article, Stop Doing That, which discuss the language choice in parent-child communication in bi- and multilingual families. In this article, Pavlenko opens his discussion by talking about overall choice, which is “the language choice or choices consciously made by the parents for daily communication with the child or children” (Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 180). Throughout the first section, he addressed two kinds of choices: “a careful weighting of all options” and “maintenance”.

For middle-and-upper families, Pavlenko argues, they let their children learn more than one language. More specifically, they consider this as an investment, which paves the way for their children’s
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