Session 6
Saturday, February 28, 2026
3:15 pm – 4:45 pm
Room: Salon B
Session 6.1 Input Properties and Family Dynamics in HL Development II
- Teaching Beyond the Classroom: Family Literacy Strategies for Arabic Educators
- Differential Object Marking in Child and Adult Persian Heritage Speakers in the U.S.
Room: Salon C
Session 6.2 Materials Development and Practical Implications
- Freeing Language Learning: OER for Equity in Heritage and Community Spanish
- Heritage Language Students’ Performance and Perceptions of Task-Based Materials in the Classroom
Room: Salon D
Session 6.3 Placement, Assessment and Evaluation Practices
- Heritage Language Course Placement: Examining the Role of Student Self-Evaluations in Language Proficiency Assessment
- Reclaiming Confidence in Writing: Heritage Spanish Learners’ Experiences with Contract Grading
- Using the Modified DELE Proficiency Test in Research with Heritage Spanish Speakers
Room: Salon E
Session 6.4 Morphosyntactic Processing and Individual Differences
- Predictive Language Processing in Heritage Bilinguals: Case Morphology in Russian and Hebrew
- Heritage Speaker Morphosyntactic Processing across Typologically Different Languages: ERP Evidence from Russian and Hebrew
- Grammatical Gender and Number Agreement in Spanish Heritage Speakers: An ERP study
Room: Salon F
Session 6.5 Writing, Spelling, and Proficiency Outcomes
- Does Explicit Instruction Beat Incidental Learning? The Effects of an Online Spelling Workbook in Spanish Heritage Language Learners
- Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency as Indicators of Filipino Language Writing Proficiency
- Writing Complexity and Working Memory in Spanish-English Heritage Language Learners
Room: Northridge
Panel 6.6 Multilingual Pedagogies for Spanish Heritage Speakers: Intercomprehension, Translanguaging, and Literature in the Italian Classroom