Heritage Language Education : A New Field Emerging (Paperback)

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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