Mindsets and family language pressure: language or anxiety transmission across generations?

This paper addresses language anxiety and monolingual mindsets not only as they relate to family use, but also divergent social, cultural, emotional domains of policy (FLP) decisions. It explores associations between practices within the family, beliefs about multilingualism ability (language mindsets), relations, negative emotions such anxiety. Based on interview data from two Turkish families in Netherlands with high levels anxiety, this demonstrates how plays a central unavoidable role FLP, influencing development unfavourably. Furthermore, it illustrates parental norms among first- second-generation immigrants affects children’s use development. The transmission across generations can be prevalent multilingual, transcultural due ‘fixed mindsets’, negatively multilingual outside family. Anxiety pressure regard influence communication bonding well immigrants’ social interaction both host so-called home country. when is built mindsets, therefore, has linguistic psychological costs for individuals, families, society.