Session 5
Saturday, February 28, 2026
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Room: Salon B
Session 5.1 Anticipatory and Facilitatory Processing of Gender in Heritage Russian and Spanish
- Morphosyntactic Prediction in Russian Heritage Speakers: Evidence from Listening and Reading
- The Role of Null vs. Overt Agreement Markers in Spanish Heritage Speakers’ Processing of Gender
- The Role of Noun Transparency in Processing of Gender during Spoken Word Recognition
Room: Salon C
Session 5.2 HL Acquisition of Morphosyntax and Semantics II
- Reconstruction of Null Arguments through Verbal Agreement in Heritage Marathi
- Acquisition of Mandarin Classifiers in Monolingual and Heritage Speakers: Comparison by Corpus Analysis
Room: Salon D
Session 5.3 HL Curriculum and Learner-Driven Pathways II
- Task-Based Needs Analysis for Vietnamese Healthcare Communication
- Empowering Heritage Learners through Independent and Partner-Based Language Study: Insights from the Directed Independent Language Study Program
Room: Salon E
Session 5.4 Language Sustainability in Diasporic Contexts
- Filipino as Lingua Franca: Rethinking Language, Identity, and Pedagogy in the Diaspora
- Cultural Identity and Preservation of Hindi as a Heritage Language in the United States
- Acknowledging Dialectal Diversity in Armenian Heritage Language Research
Room: Salon F
Session 5.5 Linguistic and Cultural Factors in HL
- Multilingual Heritage Learners: Navigating Linguistic and Cultural Differences Through Translation Practice
- Challenges in Teaching Heritage Russian Online to a Group of Doukhobors (Spirit Wrestlers) in Canada
- Balancing Heritage Language Support and English Acquisition in Linguistically Diverse Newcomer Classrooms
Room: Salon G
Session 5.6 Sentence Processing
- Effects of Grammatical Feature Dissimilarities on the Comprehension of Relative Clauses in Adolescent Spanish Heritage Speakers
- To Bind or Not to Bind: Individual Differences in Pronominal Processing among Adolescent Mandarin-English Heritage Speakers
Room: Northridge
Session 5.7 Spanish Morphosyntax II
- The Social Pragmatics of Address in Heritage Spanish: A Virtual Reality Study
- Social Positioning in Heritage Spanish: Politeness Marking across Morphosyntactic Contexts
Room: South Bay
Panel 5.8 Voices of Japanese Heritage Language Learners: A 25-Year Journey from UCLA Classrooms to the Next Generation
Room: West Coast
Panel 5.9 In Search for a More Integrated (Vietnamese) Heritage Language Curriculum and Other Issues