Strategies of Communication in an NNB Family: On the Way to Bilingual Maintenance in a Monolingual Context

The chapter aims at presenting, evaluating and discussing the effectiveness of strategies of communication in families employing the Non-Native Bilingualism approach (henceforth NNB). Though controversial, Non-Native Bilingualism has become fashionable in monolingual countries of Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. in Poland, and is regarded as one of the many possible means of raising children bilingually. First, the theoretical background is presented where the role of parents in a child’s acquisition, the possible strategies applied in bringing up children bilingually as well as potential problems to be encountered in the process have been depicted. The subsequent empirical part outlines the results of analyzed case studies collected from 22 families utilizing NNB.