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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"heritage language acquisition"”.
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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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Exploring the degree of native-likeness in bilingual acquisition: second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case-ellipsis
… knowledge of early vs. late bilinguals with heritage language learners (i.e., early bilinguals) achieving a higher level of mastery than second language learners (i.e., late bilinguals) in both oral and written tasks. It seems possible for heritage language learners to attain implicit …
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The heritage language acquisition and education of an indigenous group in Taiwan: An ethnographic study of Atayals in an elementary school
… to investigate the learning and education of the heritage language of a group of indigenous students in Taiwan. Traditionally, their heritage language, Atayal, was not written. Also, Atayal was taught at schools only recently. As one of Austronesian language families, Atayal language and culture …
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Language and Identity among Adolescent Heritage Spanish Students
This dissertation describes the language and identity trajectories of twelve purposefully selected heritage Spanish adolescents who were currently studying in a heritage language program within an urban high school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These twelve students represented six sibling groups and …
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Investigation of Parents’ Involvement in Minority Language Maintenance: Case Study of Chinese Heritage Learners’ Parents
… is inclined to encourage children’s interest in language learning by inviting them to participate in various culture-related activities. By controlling for cultural backgrounds, namely Chinese heritage and immigrant status (e.g. both groups of parents are green-card holders, and they have been …
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Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom Learners of Spanish
… 1995, 2010) in shaping the oral proficiency of heritage speakers and classroom learners of Spanish. My research questions are as follows: (1) What impact, if any, does the number of Spanish speakers in a speaker’s social network have on the oral proficiency of heritage and classroom learners of …
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The perception and production of prominence in Spanish by heritage speakers and L2 learners
"Heritage speakers (i.e., descendants of immigrants that speak an ethnic minority language in a society where a different language is spoken as the majority language) are linguistically a unique population, because, while their early and immersed exposure to the heritage language puts them in an …
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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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How flexible are grammars past puberty? Evidence from Turkish-American returnees
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Validating an elicited imitation task as an equitable assessment for heritage and second language learners of Spanish
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… investigates whether English-dominant heritage speakers (HSs) of Mandarin have selective advantages over proficiency-matched adult second language learners (L2ers) in several Mandarin linguistic phenomena, given the early age of acquisition (AoA) by HSs. Previous studies have found that …
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(In)complete Acquisition of Aspect in Second Language and Heritage Russian
… in college level Russian courses: foreign language learners of Russian whose native language is English and heritage language speakers of Russian whose dominant language at the time of study is English. Russian Aspect is known to be problematic both for monolingual and bilingual children …
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Spanish pragmatic markers' usage patterns in second language and heritage speakers
… the patterns of use of pragmatic markers in heritage speakers and second language (L2) learners of Spanish at different proficiency levels (advanced vs. low-intermediate) by comparing their performances in a series of oral tasks. The investigation is guided by two main goals: 1) to analyze …