Session 4
Saturday, February 28, 2026
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Room: Salon B
Session 4.1 Connecting HL and L2 Learners’ Needs and Pedagogies
- Peer or Tutor? Exploring the Discursive Positioning of a Heritage Learner in HL-HL vs. HL-L2 Classroom Interactions
- Connecting HL and L2 Pedagogies through Translanguaging and CLA: Early insights from a Mixed-Methods Study
- Learners’ Reflections on Collaborative Writing in Mixed Classrooms
Room: Salon C
Session 4.2 HL Acquisition of Morphosyntax and Semantics I
- Sentence Final Markers in Heritage Korean: A Longitudinal Study of Modality
- Mapping Complexity and Third Factors in the Nominal Domain: The View from Heritage Romanian
Room: Salon D
Session 4.3 HL Curriculum and Learner-Driven Pathways I
- Designing a Curriculum Framework for Heritage Learners of French: Identity, Francophonie, and the Five “Cs” of the ACTFL World-Readiness Standards
- Empowering Heritage Chinese Learners through Project-Based Learning
Room: Salon E
Session 4.4 Innovation in HL Pedagogies
- Promoting Cultural Learning and Heritage Learner Representation Through an Art-Focused Unit
- Voices across Oceans: The Impact of Transnational Peer Exchange on Heritage Language Learners’ Self-Perception and Cultural Pride
Room: Salon F
Session 4.5 Input and Family Dynamics in Hl Development
- Adolescents in Bilingual Families: Supporting Heritage Language and Translingual Identity Formation
- Beyond Boundaries in Family Language Policy: Strategic, Interest- and Story-Based Media Exposure as a Sustainable Heritage Language Practice
- Features of Child-Directed Speech in Heritage Bikol Acquisition
Room: Salon G
Session 4.6 Spanish Morphosyntax I
- Structural Maintenance and Within-Language Innovations in Spanish as a Heritage Language: Accusative Clitic Doubling
- Morphological Innovation in Nahuatl/Spanish Bilingualism: Blending Boundaries in Possessive Morphology
Room: Northridge
Session 4.7 Social Justice through Language Awareness
- Becoming Language Advocates: Digital Humanities and Critical Pedagogy in Heritage Language Education
- Critical Language Pedagogy: Beyond Task-Based Language Learning and Teaching
- Exploring Vietnamese Language and Cultural Representation in the Linguistic Landscape
Room: South Bay
Panel 4.8 Engaging Heritage Language Learners through Project-Based Language Learning
Room: West Coast
Panel 4.9 In the Middle of Everywhere: Teaching and Learning a Heritage Language in Low Ethnolinguistic Vitality Settings