June 18-22, 2012 NHLRC at UCLA Description: The cornerstone project for the National Heritage Language Resource Center is an annual research institute, established to support the Center’s principal mission of developing the research base for heritage language education. This year the institute is co-sponsored by the NSEP National Language Flagship Program as part of their [...]
Meeting the Challenges of Teaching Heritage and Domestic Language Learners Presenter: Karen E. Johnson, Penn State University July 12-14, Monday – Wednesday, 9:00am – noon This workshop will focuses on the challenges teachers face in meeting the linguistic, cultural and instructional needs of both domestic and heritage language learners enrolled in post-secondary LCTL courses. Participants [...]
ACTFL, in collaboration with UCLA, is undertaking a research project to obtain speech samples of “Heritage Speakers” of Russian for a project designed to gather reliable data about the range and variety of spoken language profiles of heritage speakers. Heritage speakers who agree to participate in the study will be asked to provide biographical and [...]