The aim of the present study was to explore attitudes of ethnic minority parents towards their children's home-language and English in the British schools. Data were responses of fathers in 59 families originating from the Indian sub-continent who were settled in U.K. They expressed an overwhelming support for maintenance of home-language in their children's schools and their attitudes were not differentiated along instrumental and integrative dimensions of motivations. However, such differentiations persisted in their attitudes towards English. The paper also outlines a procedure for the study of language attitudes of ethnic minority parents.
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