March 7-8, 2014. Heritage/community language education is a developing multidisciplinary field at the intersection of demography, sociology, psychology, neuroscience, education and other disciplines.
Clay Pell, the Department of Education’s first Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education, talks about the benefits to the U.S. of a language-proficient population, including the importance of preserving heritage language knowledge.
The conference brought together teachers and administrators of community language schools with local faculty and graduate student researchers. Some 10,000 community schools exist in the U.S.
In this newsletter we would like to update you on NHLRC's upcoming programs and share some news about one of our ongoing projects, the multimedia component of the Language Materials Project.
See also: Fall 2012 Newsletter
TED talk delivered by Prof. Kim Potowski, UIC. This talk focuses on the value of multilingualism and puts forward ideas that contest dominant ideologies of monolingualism.
In this comprehensive volume, experts offer an interdisciplinary overview of research on Spanish as a heritage language in the United States.
Are you fluent in English and another language? Consider joining the National Language Service Corps!
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