With a view to informing heritage language instruction, this project is investigating the source of difficulties heritage learners encounter when trying to grasp certain grammatical relationships found in the heritage language.
This project will compare data from heritage speakers of Russian with L2 learners that closely match them in proficiency in order to highlight similarities and differences between these populations.
This project is creating a searchable database of heritage language courses offered in college programs across the U.S. The resulting data will be made available to researchers and educators.
In this project Oral Proficiency Interviews (OPIs) will be conducted with heritage speakers of Chinese and Hindi and the resulting tester ratings analyzed in light of elicited linguistic biographies. This data will increase understanding of factors that contribute to heritage language students' speaking proficiency and enrich OPI descriptors and tester training.
Presentations by Agnes He, Silvina Montrul, Maria Polinsky, and Guadalupe Valdés, American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, 2008.
Survey Report of College-level Heritage Language Learners (2009)A report of the survey results of 1,701 respondents enrolled in post-secondary heritage languages classes.
2000 Heritage Language Research Priorities Conference ReportEdited by Donna M. Brinton, Olga Kagan, and Susan Bauckus
Dissertations with heritage-language focus: 2006-2011A partial list of heritage-language focused dissertation submitted between 2006 and 2011.
ASU Heritage Languages Baseline Data ProjectThe papers in this research project explore intergenerational heritage language transmission and preservation among selected immigrant and refugee language minority communities in the United States.
The Heart of Heritage: Sociocultural Dimensions of Heritage Language LearningAgnes Weiyun He
Agnes He
Morphological Errors in L2 Learners and Heritage Language LearnersSilvina Montrul
What does it take to be a native speaker?Maria Polinsky
Response to Colloquium PapersGuadalupe Valdés
The Polinsky Language Processing Lab
The website details events and research centered on language acquisition. The Lab is directed by Maria Polinsky, Harvard University.
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