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