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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Heritage Language"”.
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Faculty Attitudes Towards Heritage Language and Heritage Language Teaching Policy in Washington State Community College Spanish Departments
… (2002) have shown that negative attitudes about Heritage language can impact Heritage speakers in the classroom. This paper describes research carried out to assess the attitudes toward Heritage Spanish held by instructors in a higher education setting. Spanish faculty members in Washington State …
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The Hidden Schools: Mapping Greek Heritage Language Education in Canada
Since the languages of immigrant communities in Canada are categorized as “non-official”, our government is under no obligation to contribute to the perpetuation of these languages. Furthermore, education, in general, is a provincial responsibility. Thus, no formal reporting and documentation of …
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Bilingual Reading Fluency and Prediction: Heritage Language versus Second Language
… it by examining eye movements in reading by Heritage Speakers (HSs) and L2 learners of Russian. The eye movements of bilingual participants are compared to two control groups, monolingual adults and monolingual children. Following the introductory Chapter 1, in Chapter 2 we present the study …
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KALAMAZOO REVISITED: HERITAGE LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE AMONG LATVIANS IN NORTH AMERICA
… support and investment, and community contact in Heritage Language Learning (HLL), Heritage Language Maintenance (HLM) and identity formation among two groups of North American Latvians. One is made up of 49 teenagers at Gaŗezers language camp in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The other comprises 25 …
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Weaving their identities: a narrative inquiry into Korean heritage language learners
The focus for my research project was language learning practices and how people negotiate and transform their identities throughout their heritage language learning (HLL) experiences. Many scholars have explored language usages, identity formation, and influence of social class on language …
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Becoming a Heritage Language Teacher: Exploring Professional Identity Formation through Drama
Abstracting Abstract Becoming1 a heritage language teacher: exploring professional identity formation through drama Immigrants often pursue careers for which they lack formal training in their host country (Roshid & Chowdhury, 2013). Many leverage their linguistic identities and seize job …
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Korean immigrants' social practice of heritage language acquisition and maintenance through technology
Studying issues of heritage language (HL) maintenance is gaining more significance than ever as our lives become significantly more complex and dynamic because of frequent migration and the transnational diasporas that such migration creates in its wake. HL maintenance is important in multicultural …
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Heritage language maintenance: a Mexican American mother's success with raising bilingual children
… literacy as well as bilingualism by practicing heritage traditions and speaking the heritage language exclusively with them. Through extensive interviewing this past year, I report on the themes in her stories, analyze the decisions she made, and discuss the success of her children. The sources …
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Language Ideology & Pedagogical Views Across Roles: Examining a Spanish Heritage Language Program
… stakeholders within a university-level Spanish Heritage Language (SHL) program in Arizona, focusing on their language ideologies and critical language education efforts. The study, rooted in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP) frameworks, challenges …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… distribution of two typologically similar languages, Greek and Chilean Spanish, considering adult monolingual and bilingual speakers of Greek as a heritage/minority language in Chile. The focus is on null and overt third-person subjects in topic-continuity and topic-shift contexts. Such …
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Development of Cantonese as a heritage language in children: Experiments in phonology and morphosyntax
… examines the development of Cantonese in young heritage speakers (age of testing 3;10–12;3) in New York City. These heritage speakers were raised speaking predominantly Cantonese at home, but were exposed to English (the majority language) from a young age. The research investigates whether they …
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Exploring The Relationship Between Heritage Language Teachers’ Professional Development Experiences and Their Self-Efficacy
<p>The expansion of heritage language education in the U.S. is contingent upon the improvement of heritage language teachers' knowledge and abilities in the classroom, as well as the adoption of the most effective methods for instructing heritage language learners. In order to accomplish the …
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Flourishing in Chinese Heritage Language Learning: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Language Learner Wellbeing
… delving into a domain-specific understanding of language learner wellbeing. Specifically, it focuses on the wellbeing experiences of a particular learner group – young Chinese heritage language (CHL) learners in the UK – with the ultimate goal of fostering positive and flourishing HL learning …
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Enhancing Chinese Heritage Language Education Through Technology: A Two-Part Design and Evaluation Study
… dissertation addresses critical gaps in Chinese Heritage Language (CHL) education by exploring the role of technology in bridging literacy-oracy disparities and supporting instructional practices. The project comprises two distinct but interconnected manuscripts that collectively aim to enhance …
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The role of schooling for heritage language learners: A case study of Turkish heritage speakers
… study with a descriptive statistical analysis of heritage language learners’ language skills explores how Turkish communities in the U.S. support their children’s heritage language maintenance with the help of Heritage Language school. The goal of this study is to analyze Heritage Language (HL) …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… with a particular focus on Vietnamese as the heritage language. Specifically, it documents the vernacular and considers key aspects of this data from different theoretical perspectives. Its main contribution is an insight into a rarely studied heritage language variety in a contact community …
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Telling stories and contextualizing lived experiences in the Cuban heritage language and culture: an autoethnography about transculturation
… path to becoming a United States citizen and a language teacher. The lived experiences in both Cuba and the United States include (1) her father’s “one year, one month, and one day” in the Aid-to-Production Camp where young Cuban men—even the most educated— were “recruited” to work in the sugar …
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Fostering Verbal and Play Interactions in Heritage Language: A Naturalistic Intervention Mediated by Siblings for Autistic Children
… that neurotypical siblings may help bolster language and play development in autistic children (Akers et al., 2018; Celiberti & Harris, 1993; Coe et al., 1991; Glugatch & Machalicek, 2021; Oppenheim-Leaf et al., 2012; Spector & Charlop, 2018), though consideration of culturally and …
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