Contact between the titular language and the post-colonial language in bilingual Lithuanian-Russian families within the context of the growing role of English

ENIn the modern world, in conditions of active migration processes, families living in different countries face the following difficulties: how to raise a child from the linguistic point of view; how to awake a child's interest in their parent’s native language, so that it would at least partly become their native language too; how to maintain native language and a child's ethnic identity; is it necessary to do this at all? In Lithuania, these problems are well-known to the representatives of national minorities, including Russians, and Russian-speakers. However, the problems the parents face have not been clarified yet, nor have the problem-solving strategies been described yet.