Constructing The Heritage Language Learner
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Constructing The Heritage Language Learner
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Author : Neriko Doerr
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-05-28
Constructing The Heritage Language Learner written by Neriko Doerr and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Heritage language education is a relatively new field developed as "heritage" has become an important trope of belonging, legitimacy and commodification. Many recent studies treat the "heritage language learner" as an objective category. However, it is a social construct, whose meaning is contested by researchers, school administrators and the students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2007-2011 at a weekend Japanese language school in the United States, this monograph investigates the construction of the heritage language learner at the intersections of the knowledge-power complex, ideologies of language and national belonging, and politics of schooling. It examines the ways individuals become, resist and negotiate their new subjectivity as heritage language learners through becoming objects of study, being caught in nationalist aspirations and school politics regarding what to teach to whom, and negotiating with peers with various linguistic proficiency and family backgrounds. The volume proposes a new approach to view the notion of heritage language learner as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging, while offering practical suggestions for schools.
Community Service Learning For Spanish Heritage Learners
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Author : Kelly Lowther Pereira
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-12-15
Community Service Learning For Spanish Heritage Learners written by Kelly Lowther Pereira and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book proposes community service-learning as a critical pedagogy that connects learners and communities to address key challenges in heritage language education. The book’s purpose is two-fold: to fill a crucial gap in empirical research on community service-learning in the heritage language context, as well as to provide language educators and practitioners essential guidelines for designing community service-learning courses, with particular attention paid to the characteristics and needs of Spanish heritage language learners. This book presents compelling evidence demonstrating the central role community service-learning plays in developing heritage language learners’ identities, connections to the heritage language community, language attitudes, and social, cultural, and sociolinguistic awareness. Importantly, this book also addresses the often-overlooked perspectives of community partners and liaisons. As the first original research monograph on community service-learning for Spanish heritage language learners, this pioneering book will undoubtedly aid students, instructors and administrators across all levels of language education.
Constructing Multilingual Selves
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Author : Katharina Schroeder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Constructing Multilingual Selves written by Katharina Schroeder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with German language categories.
Based on the perception that language students who have a family background in the target language differ from 'typical' foreign language learners in important ways, the phenomenon of what has been termed "heritage language learner" has attracted increasing interest over the past three decades. Traditionally, heritage learners have been characterized as falling in between foreign language learners and native speakers with respect to their proficiency in the 'heritage' language, and been further distinguished from foreign language learners with reference to identity needs in light of their family connection to the language. This dissertation argues that traditional conceptions of the phenomenon cast a monolingual, monocentric view on heritage learners, failing to capture important dimensions of what learning and living with a 'heritage' language means to multilingual people who navigate complex cultural and linguistic spaces in today's world. Drawing on contemporary models of multilingualism and the self, it discusses and empirically demonstrates the extended perspective on heritage learners that comes to light when approaching the phenomenon through a theoretical lens of multilingual subjectivity. Applying a multimodal narrative inquiry approach, I investigate the perspectives and experiences of adults who grew up in (partly) German-speaking families in anglophone Canada. I examine how individual participants construct their sense of self as multilinguals in relation to narrated processes of learning German in institutional settings and beyond, showing how learning and living with German as a 'heritage' language figures into their development and perspective as multilingual language users. Data sources include individual interviews, written reflection, and participants' creation of a drawing that reflects their sense of self in relation to language. Analyses comprise three in-depth studies and a cross-case analytic approach. Implications are derived at the levels of theory and pedagogical practice. I suggest the incorporation of biography-centred modules in heritage language education and call to seize the emergence of the phenomenon of heritage learner as an opportunity to rethink language education more in general.
Heritage Language Education
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Author : Donna M. Brinton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-25
Heritage Language Education written by Donna M. Brinton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Education categories.
"... 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." María 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." María 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.
The Routledge Handbook Of Heritage Language Education
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Author : Olga E. Kagan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-03
The Routledge Handbook Of Heritage Language Education written by Olga E. Kagan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education provides the rapidly growing and globalizing field of heritage language (HL) education with a cohesive overview of HL programs and practices relating to language maintenance and development, setting the stage for future work in the field. Driving this effort is the belief that if research and pedagogical advances in the HL field are to have the greatest impact, HL programs need to become firmly rooted in educational systems. Against a background of cultural and linguistic diversity that characterizes the twenty-first century, the volume outlines key issues in the design and implementation of HL programs across a range of educational sectors, institutional settings, sociolinguistic conditions, and geographical locations, specifically: North and Latin America, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Cambodia. All levels of schooling are included as the teaching of the following languages are discussed: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian (Eastern and Western), Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, French, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Pasifika languages, Persian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish. These discussions contribute to the development and establishment of HL instructional paradigms through the experiences of “actors on the ground” as they respond to local conditions, instantiate current research and pedagogical findings, and seek solutions that are workable from an organizational standpoint. The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Language Education is an ideal resource for researchers and graduate students interested in heritage language education at home or abroad.
Heritage Language Learning And Identity Construction Of 1 5 And Second Generation Korean Canadians
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Author : Hyekyung Song
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Heritage Language Learning And Identity Construction Of 1 5 And Second Generation Korean Canadians written by Hyekyung Song and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
Immigrants' extensive contributions to Canada include cultural and linguistic diversity, underscoring the need to understand the complexities and identity construction of linguistic minorities. Drawing on sociocultural and poststructural perspectives on language, identity, and power (Duff, 2007, 2019; Foucault, 1978; Norton, 2013), this multiple case study of six university-aged 1.5 and second generation Korean Canadians explores the dynamic interplay of heritage language learning experiences, situated contexts, and identity construction. Drawing on participants' lived experiences and perspectives, the data include in-depth interviews with the primary participants, a focus group with community leaders, and the researcher's reflection journals. Offering insight into the participants' first institutional heritage language learning experiences at a university, the findings reveal how deeply these linguistic minorities' heritage language learning trajectories and identity construction were situated within complex webs of familial, sociocultural, political and transnational factors, and individuals' different ways of reacting to the social forces. Endeavors to immerse themselves into a range of linguistic and cultural contexts gave these young adults valuable life lessons and unique identities as Korean Canadians, within which they shifted their bilingual/cultural identities. Their heritage language played a critical role in the participants' multiple identities, broadening their social spaces. University-aged Korean Canadians' experiences underscore the importance of sociocultural contexts of linguistic minorities' identity and heritage language learning, the close relationship between language and identity, and the critical role of institutional inclusion of heritage languages, alongside the role of the home, educational institutions, communities, and society.
Chinese As A Heritage Language
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Author : Agnes Weiyun He
language : en
Publisher: Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr
Release Date : 2008
Chinese As A Heritage Language written by Agnes Weiyun He and has been published by Natl Foreign Lg Resource Ctr this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Foreign Language Study categories.
"The authors examine the socio-cultural, cognitive-linguistic, and educational-institutional trajectories along which Chinese as a Heritage Language may be acquired, maintained and developed. It draws upon developmental psychology, functional linguistics, linguistic and cultural anthropology, discourse analysis, orthography analysis, reading research, second language acquisition, and bilingualism. This volume aims to lay a foundation for theories, models, and master scripts to be discussed, debated, and developed, and to stimulate research and enhance teaching both within and beyond Chinese language education."--BOOK JACKET.
Identity Of Chinese Heritage Language Learners In A Global Era
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Author : Zhen Li
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Identity Of Chinese Heritage Language Learners In A Global Era written by Zhen Li and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Identity of Chinese Heritage Language Learners in a Global Era enriches the current research on heritage language (HL) learner identity by examining how identity is constructed, negotiated, and performed in the narratives of university Chinese HL (CHL) learners in Hong Kong. This monograph has identified three sub-categories of CHL learners: domestic-born Chinese, ‘third culture’ Chinese, and overseas Chinese sojourners. Through systematically examining these CHL learners’ life-history narratives about language learning, language use, and social experiences from early childhood to university time, this monograph shows how CHL learner identity is dynamically constructed and changed through self and social positioning across a wide range of spatio-temporal contexts. It also adopts investment, agency, and imagined communities to examine the shared discourses which reflect the relationship between identity and the larger social processes that involve transnational or postcolonial encounters. This monograph contributes to reflections on the emerging discourses of HL learner identity in the context of multilingualism and transnational migration. It challenges the stigmatised image of CHL learners as ‘diasporic subjects’ or ‘language minority students’ in the literature and conceptualises CHL learners as transformative linguistic and social actors in processes of transnational migration and institutional change. This monograph is targeted toward educators, researchers, and professionals working in the fields of heritage language, overseas Chinese studies, migrant studies, and intercultural studies.
Contributory Factors To Language Learning As Perceived By University Level Chinese Heritage Language Learners
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Author : Ming-Ying Li
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Contributory Factors To Language Learning As Perceived By University Level Chinese Heritage Language Learners written by Ming-Ying Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Research has shown that heritage language learners (HLLs) have different characteristics and needs than foreign language learners (FLLs). Heritage language learners acquire or learn their heritage languages at home or at community-based schools whereas foreign language learners typically learn a language in the classroom setting. In recent years, U.S. colleges and universities have experienced a rapid rise in the number of learners who have studied their heritage language of Chinese in the classroom. However, there has been little empirical research from the perspectives of university-level Chinese heritage language learners about their learning experiences and needs. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the factors that these learners perceive contributed to their heritage language learning, and how they influence that learning in both positive and negative ways. The research methods for this study included collecting data from six university-level Chinese heritage language learners written language autobiographies, conducting semi-structured interviews with each, member-checking the interviews, and holding focus-group interviews in order to investigate their perceptions of these factors.The results from this study showed that these students family cultural/linguistic background, early exposure to their heritage language, parental involvement in promoting their use of their heritage language, personal motivation, and the agentive role of the learners themselves in decision-making effectively promoted their heritage language learning. While the results from this study showed the importance of these contributory factors to heritage language learners, it is equally important to understand the cultural identities they have constructed during their heritage language learning process. Finally, I offered the studys implications for foreign language instructors and areas for future research.
Learning Chinese As A Heritage Language
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Author : Guanglun Michael Mu
language : en
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Release Date : 2015
Learning Chinese As A Heritage Language written by Guanglun Michael Mu and has been published by Multilingual Matters this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book explores heritage language learning, in particular Chinese Australians' learning of Chinese. The book is based on a mixed methods study which uses Bourdieu's sociological theory, and offers implications for sociologists of language and education, Chinese heritage language learners and teachers, and language an