Heritage Language Education

Donna Brinton is an Associate Director of UCLA's Center for World Languages and a lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics and TESL. She is also the Coordinator of the UCLA ESL Service Courses for matriculated students.  She has presented and published on a wide variety of TESOL-related topics.  Olga Kagan is the Director of the UCLA Center for World Languages and the National Heritage Language Resource Center. She is also the Coordinator and the Undergraduate Advisor for the UCLA Russian Language Program and the Director of the UCLA Russian Flagship Program. Susan Bauckus is a Staff Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also the Managing Editor of the Heritage Language Journal.

• @Contents: Selected Contents:Preface ixAn Introduction1 Who Are Our Heritage Language Learners? Identity and Biliteracy in Heritage Language Education in the United StatesNANCY H. HORNBERGER AND SHUHAN C. WANG 3Part IHeritage Speakers: Demographics, Policy, and Identity2 Learning Other Languages: The Case for Promoting Bilingualism within our Educational SystemG. RICHARD TUCKER 393 Policy Activity for Heritage Languages: Connections with Representation and CitizenshipJOSEPH LO BIANCO 534 Heritage Language Education in CanadaPATRICIA A. DUFF 715 Chinese "Dialect" Speakers as Heritage Language Learners: A Case StudyTERRENCE G. WILEY 916 Heritage Languages and Ideologies of Language: Unexamined ChallengesGUADALUPE VALDÉS, SONIA V. GONZÁLEZ,DANIA LÓPEZ GARCÍa, AND PATRICIO MÁQUEZ 1077 The Relevance of Bilingual Proficiency in U.S. Corporate SettingsMARY MCGROARTY AND ALFREDO URZÚA 131Part IIHeritage Speaker Profiles and Needs Analysis8 Heritage Language NarrativesMARIA POLINKSY 1499 Prior Language-Learning Experience and Variation in the Linguistic Profiles of Advanced English-Speaking Learners of JapaneseKAZUE KANNO, TOMOMI HASEGAWA, KEIKO IKEDA, YASUKO ITO, AND MICHAEL H. LONG 16510 Academic Writing Proficiency of Russian Heritage Speakers: A Comparative StudyDEBRA FRIEDMAN AND OLGA KAGAN 18111 Stigmatized Spanish Inside the Classroom and Out: A Model of Language Teaching to Heritage SpeakersCLAUDIA PARODI 19912 A Profile of Japanese Heritage Learners and Individualized CurriculumMASAKO O. DOUGLAS 215Part IIIProgram Development and Evaluation13 From Mirror to Compass: The Chinese Heritage Language Education Sector in the United StatesSCOTT MCGINNIS 22914 Spanish for Native Speakers Education: The State of the FieldJOY KREEFT PEYTON 24315 School-Based Programs for Heritage Language Learners: Two-Way ImmersionDONNA CHRISTIAN 25716 The Korean/English Dual Language Program in the Los Angeles Unified School DistrictSUNG-OCK S. SOHN AND CRAIG C. MERRILL 26917 Enhancing Academic Language Proficiency in a Spanish Immersion ClassroomANDREW D. COHEN AND TANIA GÓMEZ 28918 "Oh, I Get It Now!" From Production to Comprehension in Second Language LearningMERRILL SWAIN AND SHARON LAPKIN 30119 Locating and Utilizing Heritage Language Resources in the Community: An Asset-Based Approach to Program Design and EvaluationBRIAN K. LYNCH 321In Conclusion20 Salvaging Heritage LanguagesTERRY KIT-FONG AU 337About the Editors and Contributors 353Index 363

"… 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