Session 3

Friday, February 27, 2026

3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Room: Salon B

Session 3.1 Critical Pedagogy and Decolonizing Spanish HL Teaching

  • Applying Critical Language Awareness and Translanguaging to Support the Early Stages of Heritage Language Development
  • From Local to Global: Bringing Equatorial Guinea and its Speakers to the SHL Classroom
  • El Conejo en la Luna: Introducing Native Legends in a Decolonizing SHL Curriculum

Room: Salon C

Session 3.2 Cultural Paradigms of HL Development

  • Experience and Training May Not Be Enough: Elementary Teachers’ Beliefs Towards Using Learners’ Heritage Languages
  • Strengthening Heritage Language Speakers’ Emotional Connection through Cognitively-Aligned Proverbs
  • Ian y Balam: Lessons from Latino Parents and Child Heritage Language Learners through Community Co-Design of Spanish Stories

Room: Salon D

Session 3.3 Family Language Policy and Child Agency

  • Papa Russian: Children’s Interlocutor-Sensitive Adaptation in Heritage Language Socialization
  • Configuring Child Agency in Chinese Heritage Families: Parenting Style, Language Policy, and the Meaning of Guai
  • Family Language Policies in Pashto-speaking Families in the USA: Insights into their Language Practices, Language Beliefs and Language Management

Room: Salon E

Session 3.4 Heritage Phonology and Prosody

  • Investigating the Intonation of UK English Heritage Speakers of Russian
  • Realization of Spanish and English Dorsal Fricatives by Spanish Heritage Speakers

Room: Salon F

Session 3.5 Language Awareness and Literacy in HL Teaching

  • Decomposing and Deriving Capacity of Complex Words in Heritage Learners of Portuguese
  • Teaching Literature in the Heritage Spanish Classroom: Flor Negra: Címbalo de oro as a Tool for Critical Language Awareness

Room: Salon G

Session 3.6 Longitudinal and Lifespan Perspectives on Heritage Languages

  • Language and Identity among Heritage Learners of Spanish: A Longitudinal Perspective
  • A Longitudinal Case Study on One Heritage Spanish Speaker: From Teen Language Maintenance to Motherhood Language Transmission Practices 20 Years Later.

Room: Northridge

Panel 3.7 Informing the Teaching of Heritage Spanish Through Multidisciplinary Research on School-Aged Bilinguals

Room: South Bay

Panel 3.8 Community-Based Heritage Language (CBHL) Schools: A Vital Component of the Language Learning Landscape