Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: Language Planning in Intimate Household Settings -- 1. Language Maintenance and Loss in Low Vitality Settings -- 2. Latino Language Experience in the US Midwest -- 3. Language in the Small Spaces: A Description of this Project -- 4. In What Language Do You Pray? Household Language Use and Parental Strategies for Management -- 5. Mothers and Children: Attitudes and Motivations to Use Spanish -- 6. Mothers and Children: Reported Language Competence -- 7. Children: Observed Skills in Spanish -- 8. Tell Me a Story: Analysis of Children's Storytelling in Spanish -- 9. Toward a Theoretical Model of Language Maintenance in Low Vitality Settings -- 10. Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index