Heritage language education : a new field emerging

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Heritage language education : a new field emerging

edited by Donna M. Brinton, Olga Kagan, and Susan Bauckus

Routledge, 2009

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"... focuses on issues at the forefront of heritage language teaching and research. Its state-of-the-art presentation will make this volume a standard reference book for investigators, teachers, and students. It will also generate further research and discussion, thereby advancing the field." Maria Carreira, California State University - Long Beach, United States "In our multilingual and multicultural society there is an undeniable need to address issues of bilingualism, language maintenance, literacy development, and language policy. The subject of this book is timely.... It has potential to make a truly significant contribution to the field." Maria Cecilia Colombi, University of California - Davis, United States This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on teaching heritage language learners. Contributors from theoretical and applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, educational policy, and pedagogy specialists explore policy and societal issues, present linguistic case studies, and discuss curricular issues, offering both research and hands-on innovation. - The term "heritage language speaker" refers to an individual exposed to a language spoken at home but who is educated primarily in English. Research and curriculum design in heritage language education is just beginning. Heritage language pedagogy, including research associated with the attrition, maintenance, and growth of heritage language proficiency, is rapidly becoming a field in its own right within foreign language education. This book fills a current gap in both theory and pedagogy in this emerging field. It is a significant contribution to the goals of formulating theory, developing informed classroom practices, and creating enlightened programs for students who bring home-language knowledge into the classroom. Heritage Language Education: A New Field Emerging is dedicated to Professor Russell Campbell (1927-2003), who was instrumental in advocating for the creation of the field of heritage language education.

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@Contents: Selected Contents: Preface ix An Introduction 1 Who Are Our Heritage Language Learners? Identity and Biliteracy in Heritage Language Education in the United States NANCY H. HORNBERGER AND SHUHAN C. WANG 3 Part I Heritage Speakers: Demographics, Policy, and Identity 2 Learning Other Languages: The Case for Promoting Bilingualism within our Educational System G. RICHARD TUCKER 39 3 Policy Activity for Heritage Languages: Connections with Representation and Citizenship JOSEPH LO BIANCO 53 4 Heritage Language Education in Canada PATRICIA A. DUFF 71 5 Chinese "Dialect" Speakers as Heritage Language Learners: A Case Study TERRENCE G. WILEY 91 6 Heritage Languages and Ideologies of Language: Unexamined Challenges GUADALUPE VALDES, SONIA V. GONZALEZ, DANIA LOPEZ GARCIa, AND PATRICIO MAQUEZ 107 7 The Relevance of Bilingual Proficiency in U.S. Corporate Settings MARY MCGROARTY AND ALFREDO URZUA 131 Part II Heritage Speaker Profiles and Needs Analysis 8 Heritage Language Narratives MARIA POLINKSY 149 9 Prior Language-Learning Experience and Variation in the Linguistic Profiles of Advanced English-Speaking Learners of Japanese KAZUE KANNO, TOMOMI HASEGAWA, KEIKO IKEDA, YASUKO ITO, AND MICHAEL H. LONG 165 10 Academic Writing Proficiency of Russian Heritage Speakers: A Comparative Study DEBRA FRIEDMAN AND OLGA KAGAN 181 11 Stigmatized Spanish Inside the Classroom and Out: A Model of Language Teaching to Heritage Speakers CLAUDIA PARODI 199 12 A Profile of Japanese Heritage Learners and Individualized Curriculum MASAKO O. DOUGLAS 215 Part III Program Development and Evaluation 13 From Mirror to Compass: The Chinese Heritage Language Education Sector in the United States SCOTT MCGINNIS 229 14 Spanish for Native Speakers Education: The State of the Field JOY KREEFT PEYTON 243 15 School-Based Programs for Heritage Language Learners: Two-Way Immersion DONNA CHRISTIAN 257 16 The Korean/English Dual Language Program in the Los Angeles Unified School District SUNG-OCK S. SOHN AND CRAIG C. MERRILL 269 17 Enhancing Academic Language Proficiency in a Spanish Immersion Classroom ANDREW D. COHEN AND TANIA GOMEZ 289 18 "Oh, I Get It Now!" From Production to Comprehension in Second Language Learning MERRILL SWAIN AND SHARON LAPKIN 301 19 Locating and Utilizing Heritage Language Resources in the Community: An Asset-Based Approach to Program Design and Evaluation BRIAN K. LYNCH 321 In Conclusion 20 Salvaging Heritage Languages TERRY KIT-FONG AU 337 About the Editors and Contributors 353 Index 363

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