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A heritage language is the term given to a language spoken at home by bilingual children of immigrant parents. Written by a leading figure in the field, this pioneering, in-depth study brings together three heritage languages - Hindu, Spanish and Romanian - spoken in the United States. It demonstrates how heritage speakers drive morphosyntactic change when certain environmental characteristics are met, and considers the relationship between social and cognitive factors and timing in language acquisition, bilingualism, and language change. It also discusses the implications of the findings for the language education of heritage speakers in the USA and considers how the heritage language can be maintained in the English-speaking school system. Advancing our understanding of heritage language development and change, this book is essential reading for students and researchers of linguistics and multilingualism, immigration, education studies and language policy, as well as educators and policy makers.

Bilingualism --- Heritage language speakers --- Linguistic change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Spanish language --- Hindustani language --- Romanian language --- Direct object. --- Morphosyntax.

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"Spanish Heritage Learners' Emerging Literacy: Empirical Research and Classroom Practice introduces a comprehensive, multi-level empirical study on the writing abilities of Spanish Heritage Learners at the beginner level; the findings guide a broad selection of instructional activities and pedagogical resources to support writing development in the heritage language classroom. This is the first book dealing exclusively with writing competence among Spanish Heritage Language Learners through the integration of empirical evidence and instructional perspectives to address core questions on heritage language literacy. In addition to the in-depth analysis of Spanish production--spelling, verb usage, grammatical features, vocabulary, and discourse organization--the volume revises the latest perspectives within the Heritage Language Education field, and provides effective teaching approaches, innovative classroom implementations, and up-to-date resources. The volume is versatile reading for researchers and practitioners in the fields of Bilingual Education, Language Teaching Methods, and Heritage Language Pedagogy as it integrates empirical evidence, global perspectives on heritage language teaching, and suggestions for further research"

Spanish language --- Heritage language speakers --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Castilian language --- Romance languages --- Study and teaching --- Written Spanish --- Study and teaching. --- Education. --- Written Spanish&delete& --- Education --- E-books --- United States.

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"Heritage language bilingualism refers to contexts where a minority language spoken at home is (one of) the first native language(s) of an individual who grows up and typically becomes dominant in the societal majority language. Heritage language bilinguals often wind up with grammatical systems that differ in interesting ways from dominant-native speakers growing up where their heritage language is the majority one. Understanding the trajectories and outcomes of heritage language bilingual grammatical competence, performance, language usage patterns, identities and more related topics sit at the core of many research programs across a wide array of theoretical paradigms. The study of heritage language bilingualism has grown exponentially over the past two decades. This expansion in interest has seen, in parallel, extensions in methodologies applied, bridges built between closely related fields such as the study of language contact and linguistic attrition. As is typical in linguistics, not all languages are studied to the same degree. The present volume showcases what Turkish as a heritage language brings to bear for key questions in the study of heritage language bilingualism and beyond. In many ways, Turkish is an ideal language to be studied because of its large diaspora across the world, in particular Europe. The papers in this volume are diverse: from psycholinguistic, to ethnographic, to classroom-based studies featuring Turkish as a heritage language. Together they equal more than their subparts, leading to the conclusion that understudied heritage languages like Turkish provide missing pieces to the puzzle of understanding the variables that give rise to the continuum of outcomes characteristic of heritage language speakers"--

Turkish language --- Heritage language speakers --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Osmanic language --- Osmanli language --- Ottoman Turkish language (Arabic script) --- Turkic languages --- Turkic languages, Southwest --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Education.

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Heritage languages are minority languages learned in a bilingual environment. These include immigrant languages, aboriginal or indigenous languages and historical minority languages. In the last two decades, heritage languages have become central to many areas of linguistic research, from bilingual language acquisition, education and language policies, to theoretical linguistics. Bringing together contributions from a team of internationally renowned experts, this Handbook provides a state-of-the-art overview of this emerging area of study from a number of different perspectives, ranging from theoretical linguistics to language education and pedagogy. Presenting comprehensive data on heritage languages from around the world, it covers issues ranging from individual aspects of heritage language knowledge to broader societal, educational, and policy concerns in local, global and international contexts. Surveying the most current issues and trends in this exciting field, it is essential reading for graduate students and researchers, as well as language practitioners and other language professionals.

Sociology of minorities --- Sociolinguistics --- Psycholinguistics --- Bilingualism --- Multilingualism --- Heritage language speakers --- Linguistic minorities --- Linguistic minorities |x Education --- Bilingualism. --- Heritage language speakers. --- Linguistic minorities. --- Multilingualism. --- Education. --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Minority languages --- Language and languages --- Minorities --- Languages in contact --- Plurilingualism --- Polyglottism --- Political aspects --- Minoritized languages --- Education

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This volume, through highly selective and rigorous review processes, has collected eight empirical studies showcasing research advances in multiple domains including child first language, adult additional language, and heritage language acquisition. The studies are theoretically motivated and have adopted a spectrum of innovative methodological strategies to achieve a broader understanding of the nature of learning and the learning process. The volume encompasses a wide range of contents: 1) The L1 and L2 acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonetics, and the syntax-discourse interface; 2) Data comparisons across different learner groups: L1 Chinese children, L2 Chinese learners, and Chinese heritage speakers; 3) Acquisition of language skills: speaking, listening, and writing; and last but not least, 4) Instructional interventions including consciousness-raising and metacognitive strategy training. The volume is intended to bridge the gap between research and instruction by helping teachers understand their students and their learning. Informed by research, teachers can opt for appropriate pedagogical approaches and instructional conditions for their students. The volume is guest-edited by Xiaohong Wen, Professor in Applied Linguistics and Chinese language Acquisition at the University of Houston.

Language --- lexical access --- second language speech --- fluency --- accuracy --- complexity --- information structure --- child language acquisition --- Mandarin Chinese --- word order --- Chinese as a foreign language --- consciousness-raising --- obligatory and forbidden contexts --- perfective aspect marker --- rule induction --- Mandarin consonants --- English CFL learners --- L2 perception and production --- Chinese --- listening --- metacognition --- metacognitive strategy --- strategy training --- Mandarin --- polysemy --- verb semantics --- L2 Chinese --- descriptive writing --- metadiscourse --- cohesion --- local --- global --- text --- interactive --- interactional --- sentence-final particle --- Chinese heritage speakers --- features --- lexical access --- second language speech --- fluency --- accuracy --- complexity --- information structure --- child language acquisition --- Mandarin Chinese --- word order --- Chinese as a foreign language --- consciousness-raising --- obligatory and forbidden contexts --- perfective aspect marker --- rule induction --- Mandarin consonants --- English CFL learners --- L2 perception and production --- Chinese --- listening --- metacognition --- metacognitive strategy --- strategy training --- Mandarin --- polysemy --- verb semantics --- L2 Chinese --- descriptive writing --- metadiscourse --- cohesion --- local --- global --- text --- interactive --- interactional --- sentence-final particle --- Chinese heritage speakers --- features