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Attitudes and Expectations towards Heritage Language Instruction: Evidence from Korean and Spanish in the US

Languages, 2021
This study investigated how the attitudes and expectations of heritage languages (HL) courses differ between Spanish and Korean. Spanish and Korean are two of the biggest heritage languages (HLs) taught across American universities, but represent ...
Esther Hur, Julio Cesar Lopez Otero, Eunji Lee   +2 more
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Family language policy in Russian-Estonian and Russian-Spanish multilingual settings

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021
This paper primarily focuses on the family language policy of bilingual Russian-Estonian and Russian-Spanish families in relation to the maintenance of Russian as a heritage language.
Olga Ivanova, Anastassia Zabrodskaja
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The Doba of Ethiopia In the 15th and 16th Centuries

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This review article is a historical narrative of the Doba people, who inhabited the Northeast Amhara region and Southern Tigray in what is now referred to as Raya, Ethiopia.
Mesfin Tadesse Belay, Mengiste Zewdu Tessema, Wubie Tadege Yenehun   +2 more
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Exploring goals and motivations of Māori heritage language learners

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2015
Motivations of Māori heritage language learners are explored within this qualitative study. Te reo Māori (the Māori language) is currently classed as endangered (Reedy et al., 2011), which calls for the exploration of the motivational experiences of ...
Awanui Te Huia
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A call for critical and open pedagogies in Spanish heritage language instruction: Students as knowledge producers of Open Educational Resources (OERs)

EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2023
This paper stresses the urgent need to implement critical and open pedagogies in language teaching, especially in the Spanish heritage language classroom.
Inés Vañó García
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Toward an understanding of heritage prosody [PDF]

, 2016
In previous work examining heritage language phonology, heritage speakers have often patterned differently from native speakers and late-onset second language (L2) learners with respect to overall accent and segmentals.
Yao, Yao, Chang, Charles B., Chang, Charles   +2 more
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Review: Kagan, Olga, Carreira, Maria M., & Hitchins Chik, Claire (Eds.). (2017). The Routledge handbook of heritage language education: From innovation to program building. Taylor & Francis.

EuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2021
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education successfully contextualizes heritage language education initiatives across a wide range of languages and geographical settings.
Simay Birce Er
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Polish as Heritage Language

ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Polish is spoken today in numerous countries around the world, a reflection of the vast Polish diaspora’s efforts to preserve their linguistic heritage and cultural identity across borders and generations.
Romanowski, Piotr, Seretny, Anna
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Bestimmung des Sprachstands in einer Herkunftssprache: Ein Vergleich verschiedener Testverfahren am Beispiel des Polnischen als Herkunftssprache in Deutschland. Determining proficiency in a heritage language: A comparison of different testing methods based on Polish as a heritage language in Germany

Glottodidactica, 2016
The paper discusses several methods of evaluating heritage speakers’ abilities in their heritage language. Speech rate in spontaneous text production, lexical knowledge and grammatical proficiency in the heritage language have been found to correlate ...
Bernhard Brehmer
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Constructing and Validating New County‐Level Cultural Capital Indices for Applied Policy Analysis: Evidence From SNAP Take‐Up

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap, Becca B. R. Jablonski, John Bovay   +2 more
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