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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Heritage language learners"”.
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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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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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Language Policy and Mandarin Investment of Tertiary Chinese Heritage Language Learners from Dialect Backgrounds in New Zealand
Chinese language encompasses Mandarin and many other dialects that are mutually unintelligible with Mandarin in their spoken forms. Under China’s growing influence and its Mandarin promotion language policy, today’s overseas Chinese language programmes are mainly Mandarin-dominated and enjoy …
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Errors in inflectional morphemes as an index of linguistic competence of Korean Heritage language learners and American learners of Korean
… the linguistic competence in Korean of Korean heritage language learners (HLLs), compared to English-speaking non-heritage language learners (NHLLs) of Korean. It is unclear and controversial as to whether heritage languages learners are exposed to early but are interrupted manifest as L1 …
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(Un)natural Bridges, (Un)safe Spaces: A Critical Qualitative Study of Spanish as a Foreign Language Educators’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners in Mixed Classrooms
… school system, educators of Spanish as a foreign language are faced with a different audience to the ones they were trained to teach: students who identified as heritage language learners, for whom the Spanish language is part of their community life and their cultural identity. This critical …
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Exploring the degree of native-likeness in bilingual acquisition: second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case-ellipsis
… and poses many learnability problems for the learners. The present research examines similarities and differences between the different types of bilinguals as well as between monolingual and bilingual populations. An oral picture description task and a written forced-choice elicitation task …
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Use of Verb-Noun Collocations by Advanced Learners of Chinese
… date there are still relatively few studies on language learners’ collocation knowledge and development within different local contexts. The current study intends to contribute to the literature by investigating the oral production of Chinese verb-noun (V-N) collocations by a group of highly …
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La experiencia traductora de estudiantes de español como lengua de herencia: un estudio empírico a través de tres niveles de enseñanza superior
… focuses on the translation experience of Spanish heritage language learners (SHLLs). Based on data derived from a questionnaire on translation habits and attitudes and two translation tasks, this quantitative and qualitative study describes the translation habits, attitudes, and abilities of 90 …
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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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Effects of instruction on writing improvement of university heritage learners of Spanish: A longitudinal study
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112959 Lift date: 2021-11-26T20:49:41Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Bridging evolving identities and language persistence: A longitudinal study of motivational dynamics among Arab heritage learners of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Creaciones Léxicas: Procesos De Producción Y Formación en El Registro Oral Y Escrito De Estudiantes De Español Como Lengua De Herencia
Este trabajo de investigación presenta los resultados acotados mediante el estudio de los procesos de formación y producción de las creaciones léxicas en el discurso oral y escrito de un total de 60 jóvenes matriculados en tres cursos de español como lengua de herencia de la escuela técnica South …
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Non-standard Italian Dialect Heritage Speakers' Acquisition of Clitic Placement in Standard Italian
… object clitic placement in Standard Italian by heritage speakers (HSs) of non-standard Italian dialects. It compares two different groups of Standard Italian learners--Northern Italian dialect HSs and Southern Italian dialect HSs--whose heritage dialects contrast with each other in clitic word …
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PAIR INTERACTION IN SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS THAT ENROLL HERITAGE AND L2 LEARNERS
… collaborative writing tasks facilitate second language (L2) development by providing learners with opportunities to focus their attention on language and to collaborate in the solution of their language-related problems (e.g., Choi & Iwashita, 2016; Storch, 2013; Swain & Lapkin, 1998; Williams, …
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Developing second language confidence: The effect of videoconferencing on L2 and HL learners of Spanish
Second language confidence (L2C) is considered a central component in language learning as it can affect the processes and outcomes of second language acquisition (Dörnyei, 2005). According to the functional model proposed by Sampasivam and Clément (2014), the two determinants that build towards …