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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 ...
Kristine Horner, Jean-Jacques Weber
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Heritage languages

2019
Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status.
Suzanne Aalberse   +2 more
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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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Language as Cultural Heritage

2020
Abstract This chapter addresses linguistic heritage as part of cultural heritage. The use of a language not only serves as a means of functional communication but also expresses the speaker’s cultural identity as well as the cultural heritage developed by all previous users of that language. One can say that legal measures that allow for
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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).
Kiyomi Chinen, G. Richard Tucker
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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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