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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"heritage language maintenance"”.
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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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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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Chinese Heritage Language Maintenance and Identity Construction: Investigation of the Family Language Policy of Chinese Immigrant Families in New Zealand
This study attempts to shed light on Chinese heritage language (CHL) maintenance and identity construction in Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand by investigating the implementation of family language policy (FLP) and the sequential outcomes of CHL competency. Accordingly, it provides …
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A mixed-method approach to heritage language maintenance in Los Angeles: investigating language dominance, acculturation, and generation at a Hispanic-Serving Institution
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-20 without embargo terms
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LANGUAGE ATTITUDES OF FIRST AND SECOND GENERATION AFGHAN-AMERICANS AND IRANIAN-AMERICANS TOWARD DARI AND PERSIAN
… goal of this study is to investigate the current language attitudes of first and second generation Afghan and Iranian-Americans toward the two varieties Dari and Persian of the Indo-Iranian language Farsi. Research on this subject can facilitate future endeavors toward heritage language …
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The Glocal Learning Context in an Adult ESL Classroom: An Interpretivist Case Study of Learners’ Development and Multilingual Identity
… landscapes that both affirm learners’ local heritages and critically engage with global concerns. At the interpersonal level, learners demonstrated deepening global awareness, renewed emotional attachment to their L1s, and behavioural shifts including heritage language maintenance and civic …
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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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"""Am I Korean American?"": beliefs and practices of parents and children living in two languages and two cultures"
… explore attitudes and practices regarding their heritage language and the dominant English language among Korean American immigrant families. Using the framework of Language Ideology (Silverstein, 1979), I had three research questions: a) why do parents send their children to a Korean language …
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Narrative Accounts of Third-Generation Mexican-Americans: Bilingualism in a Third Space
<p>While language shift is common in immigrant families by the third generation, maintenance of the heritage language is not impossible, depending on geography and other language socializing contexts such as parental communication and interactions with monolingual relatives of the minority language …