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