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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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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, 2019AbstractWith 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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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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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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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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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 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 languages and language as heritage: the language of heritage in Canada and beyond
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 2022Jonathan Eaton, Mark Turin
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Abstract This chapter provides a brief overview of heritage language education and its potential role in supporting heritage language learners’ bi/multilingualism. We begin by considering the multifaceted nature of heritage language education programs and courses to address heritage language learners’ goals and needs.
Amelia Tseng +4 more
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Why Protect Heritage Sign Languages?*
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2006In this chapter, the author sets out one very basic viewpoint: ‘that the potential endangerment of sign languages, however it may occur, is an issue whose broader significance all applied linguists may wish to ponder’. The chapter deals with wider issues concerning how ‘changes in language are plainly linked to changes in society’, and, more ...
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Italo-Romance Heritage Languages
This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining studies on relatively well-documented communities withEugenio Goria, Margherita Di Salvo
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