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The acquisition of object clitic pronouns in Heritage Romanian
Frontiers in Language SciencesThis paper examines the acquisition of object clitic pronouns in Heritage Romanian (HR) by school-age children in Toronto who are second-generation speakers of Romanian—i.e., children of first-generation immigrant parents.
Mihaela Pirvulescu, Virginia Hill
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Practical and Theoretical Issues in the Study of Heritage Language Acquisition [PDF]
Heritage Language Journal, 2011 A promising source of insights into heritage language learning comes from the broader study of the role of input in language acquisition. We concentrate here on the possibility that qualitative differences in the proficiency of heritage and monolingual language learners can be traced to a qualitative difference in the input available to each group.
William O'Grady +2 more
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Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2019 This study presents the results of an investigation into the size and composition of vocabulary and early sentence formation in two groups of young bilingual children, one acquiring Italian as a majority language and the other acquiring it as a heritage ...
Francesca La Morgia, Jo Billington
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Frontiers in Language SciencesFor children speaking a heritage language, the onset of schooling may induce a shift in dominance of language exposure from the heritage language to the societal language.
Jacopo Torregrossa +3 more
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CULTURAL HERITAGE AS A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING INTERCULTURALISM AND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културу, 2022 This paper deals with introducing the cultural heritage of the host country in second or foreign language acquisition and maintains that cultural heritage could provide a framework for developing interculturalism and language skills. It presents the international Erasmus + project and the two units that were delivered in The International School of ...
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Heritage Language Maintenance: The Case of Bangladeshi Immigrants in Canada.
Interaction Design and Architecture(s)Immigrant parents not only face assimilation challenges in a new country, but many also find it difficult to connect their children with their heritage culture.
Hazem Ibrahim +6 more
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The Roles of Attitude, Motivation, and Identity in Heritage Language Learning among Korean Americans
Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL, 2015 Much research has been conducted on learning English as an additional language both in the United States and around the world. However, there have been fewer studies focusing on heritage language learners (HLLs) who have already acquired English as their
Grace Kong
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The Roles of Attitude, Motivation, and Identity in Heritage Language Learning Among Korean Americans
Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2011 Much research has been conducted on learning English as an additional language both in the United States and around the world. However, there have been fewer studies focused on heritage language learners (HLLs) who have already acquired English as their ...
Grace Kong
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A Non-Deficit Perspective on Heritage Language Acquisition: The Case of Portuguese
Romanica CracoviensiaThis paper reviews findings of some studies of heritage Portuguese bilingualism (both European and Brazilian Portuguese), with a focus on morphosyntax, and reflects on some theoretical observations ...
Acrisio Pires, Cecilia Solís Barroso
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Frontiers in EducationThis paper examines the role of Mandarin community heritage language schools (MCHLS) in the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Veronika Makarova, Qin Xiang
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