Session 1

Friday, February 27, 2026

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Room: Salon B

Session 1.1 Affective and Experiential Factors in HL Use

  • Attitudinal and Experiential Effects on Heritage Language Name Pronunciations
  • Linguistic Insecurity in Heritage Speakers: Exploring the Roles of Proficiency and Dominance
  • The Frozenization Effect and the Crisis of Unvoiced Names: Heritage Name Reclamation in the Taiwanese Language Revival

Room: Salon C

Session 1.2 Assessment Tools and Research Instruments

  • Validating Instruments to Investigate Classifier Use among Vietnamese Heritage Learners
  • Introducing TITA: A Tool for Intergenerational Transmission Assessment of Community Languages

Room: Salon D

Session 1.3 Belonging, Empowerment, and Cultural Affirmation

  • Cultivating belonging at a Hispanic-Serving Institution: Qualitative insights from heritage speakers of Spanish
  • Racialization and Language in Nativist America: Testimonios of Spanish Heritage Language Learners
  • Language, Love, and Liberation: Testimonios and Pláticas of Community College Spanish Heritage Speakers

Room: Salon E

Session 1.4 Code-switching

  • Code-switching in the Heritage Language of Kuwaiti Ajam Bilinguals
  • Determiner Selection in Code-Switched Nominal Constructions: Usage-Based Insights from Italo-Romance Heritage Languages in the UK
  • Heritage Bilingualism and Gender Assignment in Code-Mixing: Evidence from Russian–Hebrew Children

Room: Salon F

Session 1.5 Community-Based Schooling: Contexts and Models

  • The Role of Korean Community Language Schools in Shaping Heritage Learners’ Cultural and Linguistic Identities
  • Community-based Chinese Heritage Language Education: Hanzi, Epistemology, and Identity

Room: Salon G

Session 1.6 Environmental Factors of HL Use and Development

  • Writer Identity in Heritage Language Learner Contexts: A Study of Two Filipino HLLs
  • An Ecological Approach to Heritage Languages. Evidence from Heritage Albanian and Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian in Switzerland
  • Benchmarking Intercultural Bilingual Education in Latin America

Room: Northridge

Panel 1.7 Shifting Language Ideologies and Identity Among Ukrainian and Russian speaking Diasporas Post-2022

Room: South Bay

Panel 1.8 Building Language, Culture, and Community: Perspectives from Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian Community-Based Heritage Language Schools in Southern California