The National Heritage Language Resource Center, at the University of California, Los Angeles, is a federally funded language resource center whose mission is to develop effective pedagogical approaches to teaching heritage language learners, both by creating a research base and by pursuing curriculum design, materials development, and teacher education.

Over 57 million people in the U.S. speak a language other than English at home (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006-2010). Individuals exposed to a language other than English at home but educated primarily in English are heritage speakers of the home language.
 
The creation of a national center dedicated to heritage language education attests to the importance of this field to the nation. California is an ideal venue for NHLRC since almost 27% of its population five years of age and older is foreign born, and 42% speak a home language other than English (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005-2009).

Advisory Board on Pedagogy

Editor-in-Chief, Heritage Language Journal (ex officio)

Fatih Bayram, The Arctic University of Norway

Richard Brecht, University of Maryland

Irina Y. Dubinina, Brandeis University

Patricia Duff, University of British Columbia

Shoichi Iwasaki, University of California, Los Angeles

Shushan Karapetian, University of Southern California

Hi-Sun Kim, Harvard University

Kim Potowski, University of Illinois Chicago

Alegría Ribadeneira, Colorado State University Pueblo

Julio Torres, University of California, Irvine

Advisory Board on Research

Editor-in-Chief, Heritage Language Journal (ex officio)

Abbas Benmamoun, Duke University

Joseph Lo Bianco, The University of Melbourne

Cristina Flores, Universidade do Minho

Agnes He, Stony Brook University

Jürgen M. Meisel, Universität Hamburg

Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Ricardo Otheguy, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Irina A. Sekerina, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

Harold Torrence, University of California, Los Angeles

Li Wei, University College London

Marit Westergaard, The Arctic University of Norway

Affiliates by Region

Eastern Region

Sybil Alexandrov, Yale University

Irina Dubinina, Brandeis University

Agnes Weigum He, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Gabriela Ilieva, New York University

Marie-Michelle Monereau, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Sara Shin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Alla Smyslova, Columbia University

Western Region

Masako Douglas, California State University, Long Beach

Linda Godson, Portland State University

Kimi Kondo-Brown, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Alejandro Lee, Santa Monica College

Jin Sook Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara

Namhee Lee, California State University, Los Angeles

Ekaterina Moore, University of Southern California

Alegría Ribadeneira, Colorado State University, Pueblo

Southern Region

Sara Beaudrie, University of Arizona

Victoria Hasko, University of Georgia, Athens

Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan, University of New Mexico

Diego Pascual y Cabo, University of Florida

Midwest Region

Melissa Bowles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kim Potowski, The University of Illinois at Chicago

Laura Walls, University of Nebraska, Omaha

Wayne Wright, Purdue University