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Language contact in heritage languages 
in the Netherlands

2013
This paper discusses heritage languages (HLs) in the Netherlands. First, different types of motivations for the study of heritage languages in general are presented, since the type of motivation for the interest in heritage speakers has a large impact on the type of phenomenon researched.
Suzanne Aalberse, Pieter Muysken
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HERITAGE LANGUAGE SPEAKERS AND PRESERVING THE RUSSIAN HERITAGE LANGUAGE IN THE USA: AN OVERVIEW

The Humanities And Social Studies In The Far East, 2022
This article examines the challenges of preserving heritage language and culture among a specific type of bilinguals – heritage speakers of Russian residing in the United States. The necessity for specialized heritage language (HL) learning programs is motivated by the recently growing interest in bilingualism and preserving heritage languages.
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Studies in Turkish as a heritage language

2020
Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems that differ in interesting ways from dominant-native ...
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Understanding heritage languages

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019
AbstractWith a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical foundations, moving toward a deeper understanding of the nature of language competence under unbalanced bilingualism.
Maria Polinsky, Gregory Scontras
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Regional language as heritage languages

International Journal of Bilingualism
Aims and objectives: Heritage languages are commonly spoken by immigrants and their children, but they can also be spoken in their own territories when national regional languages and indigenous languages share space with a majority language.
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Heritage Languages

Heritage language speakers often feel discouraged from using their heritage language because they are told they do not speak it well. This book offsets such views by investigating heritage language variation and change across generations in eight languages spoken in Toronto.
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Heritage Language Education

2017
@Contents: Selected Contents: Preface ix An Introduction 1 Who Are Our Heritage Language Learners? Identity and Biliteracy in Heritage Language Education in the United States NANCY H. HORNBERGER AND SHUHAN C. WANG 3 Part I Heritage Speakers: Demographics, Policy, and Identity 2 Learning Other Languages: The Case for Promoting Bilingualism within our ...
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Heritage Language Development

2006
This collection of studies investigates the individual, micro-psychological, and macro-societal factors that promote or discourage the development of child and young adult heritage language learners’ spoken and written skills in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean).
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Maternal heritage language proficiency and child bilingual heritage language learning

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
He Sun, Jiamin Low, Ivy Chua
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The Study of Heritage Language Development From a Bilingualism and Social Justice Perspective

Language Learning, 2020
Lourdes Ortega
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