The Results of the National Heritage Language Survey
Implications for Teaching, Curriculum Design, and Professional Development
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8937451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | María M Carreira (California State University, Long Beach, corresponding author), Maria Carreira, Olga Kagan (0000-0002-4518-1859, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-64 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Foreign Language Annals (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-718X • E-ISSN: 1944-9720 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2010.01118.x |
| OpenAlex | W1912961831 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 127 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article reports on a survey of heritage language learners (HLLs) across different heritage languages (HLs) and geographic regions in the United States. A general profile of HLLs emerges as a student who (1) acquired English in early childhood, after acquiring the HL; (2) has limited exposure to the HL outside the home; (3) has relatively strong aural and oral skills but limited literacy skills; (4) has positive HL attitudes and experiences; and (5) studies the HL mainly to connect with communities of speakers in the United States and to gain insights into his or her roots. We argue that a community‐based curriculum represents an effective way to harness the wealth of knowledge and experiences that HLLs bring to the classroom and to respond to their goals for their HL
Curriculum · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Heritage language · Literacy · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching
Ius Soli, Ius Sanguinis, Ius Linguae, or Ius Mundi
Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker
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The Climate Turn in Language Teaching
The Acquisition of Heritage Languages
El Español de los Estados Unidos
The Impact of Mother Tongue Instruction on the Development of Biliteracy
Visual voices
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An evaluation of a multidimensional identity measurement instrument
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Vulnerability and stability of Differential Object Marking in Romanian heritage speakers
Predictors of language proficiency and cultural identification in heritage bilinguals
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Written “corrective” feedback in Spanish as a heritage language
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Exploring working memory and language dominance in heritage bilinguals’ writing processes
Associations of students’ linguistic distance to the language of instruction and classroom composition with English reading and listening skills
Spanish heritage language learners’ motivational profile in the postsecondary classroom
The role of research design in the reproducibility of L1 and L2 language networks
Linguistic and cultural identity of Indonesian Americans in The United States
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Heritage Speakers in Four Major U.S. Metropolitan Areas
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How usage-based approaches to language can contribute to a unified theory of heritage grammars
A classification of receptive bilinguals
Spanish proficiency, cultural knowledge, and identity of Mormon returned missionaries
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Stancetaking and heritage language production
Reported literacy, media consumption and social media use as measures of relevance of Spanish as a heritage language
The processing of the object marker a by heritage Spanish speakers
The effects of age and experience with input in the acquisition of clitic climbing in heritage and L2 Spanish
Language contact in the Polish-American community in Chicago
Arabic as a heritage language
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The role of the family in heritage language use and learning
Heritage and second language learners
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The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development
Written Subject Pronoun Expression among Spanish Heritage Language Learners
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Developing Critical Language Awareness via Service-Learning for Spanish Heritage Speakers
Perceived Correctness of Nominal Gender (Dis)Agreement by Heritage Speakers of Spanish
Cross-Language Community Engagement
Perception of Portuguese Mid Vowels by Heritage Speakers of Brazilian Portuguese
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Emotional Words in Heritage Learners of Spanish
Writing Proficiency Development of Spanish Heritage Language Learners
Constructing bilingual input safe spaces at home
Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Spanish
From pedagogy to communities
Language ideologies, family language policy, and a changing societal context in Kansas
El diptongo/hiato como rasgo contrastivo
Teachers’ Perceptions of Heritage Language Learners
Default Grapheme and Language Transfer in the Spelling of /s/ in Spanish Heritage Language Learners
Majority Language Influence and Heritage Language Maintenance in a Small Transnational Community
Family language policy among Bangladeshi immigrants in New York
Using instructor judgment, learner corpora, and DIF to develop a placement test for Spanish L2 and heritage learners
Beyond transmission
The Dynamics of Russian Language Maintenance in the U.S.-Based Russophone Diaspora
Variation along the referentiality scale in the production of Spanish differential object marking by monolingual and bilingual children
Immigrant parents and children navigating two languages
Heritage languages and their speakers
Heritage Spanish Speakers’ Writing Development
Intergenerational attrition
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Factors Affecting Language Proficiency in Heritage Language
Developing techniques for the teaching and assessment of writing in the Spanish heritage language classroom through critical pedagogies
Red, Hot Cheeto Fingers
Home Literacy Environment and Word Knowledge Development
Korean Families in America
Exploring multiliteracies in multilingual students
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Bilingual community education and multilingualism – beyond heritage languages in a global city
Sentence comprehension in heritage language
Revitalising Indigenous language
Family language policy through the eyes of bilingual children
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Heritage speakers of Spanish in the US Midwest
English as a Heritage Language in Japan
On the production of bare nouns and case marking in Korean heritage speakers in contact with English
The effect of dyad type on collaboration
Chinese heritage language learners' motivation and intention to continue learning Mandarin
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Effects of Community Service-Learning on Heritage Language Learners' Attitudes Toward Their Language and Culture
Collaborative writing in mixed classes
Building spaces for heritage language learners
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Pedagogical translation for reading comprehension in mixed HL‐L2 secondary classrooms
When a heritage speaker wants to be a Spanish teacher
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Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children
Language Contact and Change
Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism
Principles of language learning and teaching
Building on Strength
In Support of a Proficiency-based Definition of Heritage Language Learners
Lost in Between
Toward a Definition of Heritage Language
The Role of Heritage Language in Social Interactions and Relationships
Language and Ethnicity
Heritage Languages in America
Spanish for Native Speakers
Funds of knowledge for teaching
Heritage Languages
| Unique citing works | 127 |
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| Citations per year | 8,47 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 122 |