This three-paper formatted dissertation is a qualitative case study of one intermarried Korean-English speaking family residing in South Korea. Data was drawn from in-depth, semi-structured interviews, participant journals, and video documentation of familial interactions, including discussions of family member’s language portraits, family mealtimes, and familial time spent playing board and card games. The first of the three articles examines the language ideologies and practices of the intermarried family and argues that a translanguaging stance needs to be taken up by caregivers in a bilingual home to support bilingual children and push back on monolingual ideologies placed on bilingual children. The second article looks at the influence of transnational knowledge that the parent members of the family possessed and how this knowledge alongside their ethnotheories of childrearing influenced their bonding and language practices in the home. The third paper examines the practiced and positioned identities of the four family members in Korea. The findings of this dissertation suggest that: 1) multiple and conflicting language ideologies and practices can exist in multilingual homes, 2) a translanguaging stance among caregivers of bilingual children is important to support their evolving bilingual identities, 3) transnational knowledge and ethnotheories are present in the decision making of family language policies and practices in intermarried families, and 4) practiced identities may conflict with positioned identities, especially those of multilingual and multiracial children in the Korean context.
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