Session 2

Friday, February 27, 2026

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Room: Salon B

Session 2.1 Community-Based Schooling: Contexts and Models II

  • Voices of the Arabic Language in Weekend Schools in the United States
  • Differentiated Heritage Language Instruction in Practice: A Case Study of a Serbian Community School
  • Acting Out Heritage: Integrating CLIL and Performing Arts in a Russian Children’s Theater Program

Room: Salon C

Session 2.2 Conceptual Representation of Bilinguals’ Languages

  • Language Brokering in Heritage Bilinguals: From Early Experience to Adult Outcomes
  • Heritage Experience Illuminates the Ways that Bilinguals Regulate Two Languages in the Mind
  • The Importance of Heritage Language Input: A Holistic Linguistic and Environmental Perspective on the Separate/Unified/Integrated Language Systems Debate

Room: Salon D

Session 2.3 Heritage Phonology

  • African Languages and the Expansion of Heritage Phonology Research
  • Understanding Heritage Speech through Phonological Development

Room: Salon E

Session 2.4 Language as Resistance and Action

  • Considerations of Moral Obligation in Learning Uyghur as a Heritage Language in the Diaspora
  • MABA: Make America Bilingual Again. Resisting English-Only and Embracing Multilingual Futures
  • Ukrainian Language Maintenance as Cultural Resistance: Ukrainian Immigrant Parents' Attitudes and the Role of Community Schools in Southern California Amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War

Room: Salon F

Session 2.5 Language Awareness and Language Sustainability in HL Learning

  • Speaking Local, Personal, and Global: Incorporating Various Spanishes into the SHL Curriculum
  • Language as Champa: Educational Resources for Lao American Identity and Continuity
  • The (In)visible student: Discursive and ideological Positionings of Heritage Language Learners in Three World Language Teacher Methodology Textbooks

Room: Salon G

Session 2.6 Language Ideologies and Speakerhood

  • Language as Inheritance: Accounting for Nuance in Defining the Speakership ofʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian)
  • Identity, Community, and Opportunities: Indigenous and Colonial Heritage Language Learning Motivations in Predominantly White Communities
  • Heritage Choices, L2 voices: How Ideologies Shape HLLs Language Attitudes toward L2 Spanish in the Mixed Spanish Classroom

Room: Northridge

Panel 2.7 Community Building and Language Learning for Heritage Language Learners

Room: South Bay

Panel 2.8 Dual Language Immersion Education Enhances Morphosyntactic Development in Spanish Heritage Speakers in the United States

Room: West Coast

Panel 2.9 Challenges, Best Practices, and Emerging Perspectives in Ukrainian and Polish Community-Based Heritage Language Schools in Southern California