Monolingual Development in Bilingual Family: Exploring Parental LanguagePolicy Within Family Domain

The existence of three possible languages within intermarriage family, for example javanese andsasaknese from their parents and indonesian from their surrounding should have led children becomebilingual in nature. however, the reversed condition is prevailing where the use of indonesian ispredominantly used. this research locates three different aspects of family language policy namelylanguage ideology, language management and language practice. this research aims at finding out whyparents of intermarriage family incline the use of one language within family domain. this researchemployed qualitative data in order to understand and interpret family language behaviour and uses multistaged purposive sampling. the sample was four of immigrant mothers and four of sasak mothers. theresult showed the tendency to use indonesian in a family domain is due to habitus which leads to culturecapital and symbolic capital.